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Marriage and Family Life
- English1. As a fundamental element in society, the family has the right to protection by society and the state and to the effective implementation of all the conditions needed to enable family members to achieve personal fulfilment.
2. In order to protect the family, the state is particularly charged with:
a) Promoting the social and economic independence of households;
b) Promoting the creation of, and guaranteeing access to, a national network of crèches and other social facilities designed to support the family, together with a policy for the elderly;
c) Cooperating with parents in relation to their children's education;
d) With respect for individual freedom, guaranteeing the right to family planning by promoting the information and access to the methods and means required therefore, and organising the legal and technical arrangements that make it possible to exercise motherhood and fatherhood with awareness;
e) Regulating assisted procreation in such a way as to safeguard the dignity of the human person;
f) Regulating taxes and social benefits in harmony with family costs;
g) After first consulting the associations that represent the family, defining and implementing a global and integrated family policy;
h) By concerting the various sectoral policies, promoting the reconciliation of work and family life. (Art. 67) - Portuguese1. A família, como elemento fundamental da sociedade, tem direito à protecção da sociedade e do Estado e à efectivação de todas as condições que permitam a realização pessoal dos seus membros.
2. Incumbe, designadamente, ao Estado para protecção da família:
a) Promover a independência social e económica dos agregados familiares;
b) Promover a criação e garantir o acesso a uma rede nacional de creches e de outros equipamentos sociais de apoio à família, bem como uma política de terceira idade;
c) Cooperar com os pais na educação dos filhos;
d) Garantir, no respeito da liberdade individual, o direito ao planeamento familiar, promovendo a informação e o acesso aos métodos e aos meios que o assegurem, e organizar as estruturas jurídicas e técnicas que permitam o exercício de uma maternidade e paternidade conscientes;
e) Regulamentar a procriação assistida, em termos que salvaguardem a dignidade da pessoa humana;
f) Regular os impostos e os benefícios sociais, de harmonia com os encargos familiares;
g) Definir, ouvidas as associações representativas das famílias, e executar uma política de família com carácter global e integrado.
h) Promover, através da concertação das várias políticas sectoriais, a conciliação da actividade profissional com a vida familiar. (Art. 67)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall guarantee the rights of pregnant and breast-feeding women to:
1. Not be discriminated for their pregnancy in education, social, and labor sectors.
2. Free maternal healthcare services.
3. Priority protection and care of their integral health and life during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum.
4. The facilities needed for their recovery after pregnancy and during breast-feeding. (Art. 43) - SpanishEl Estado garantizará a las mujeres embarazadas y en periodo de lactancia los derechos a:
1. No ser discriminadas por su embarazo en los ámbitos educativo, social y laboral.
2. La gratuidad de los servicios de salud materna.
3. La protección prioritaria y cuidado de su salud integral y de su vida durante el embarazo, parto y posparto.
4. Disponer de las facilidades necesarias para su recuperación después del embarazo y durante el periodo de lactancia. (Art. 43)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State recognizes the Filipino family as the foundation of the nation. Accordingly, it shall strengthen its solidarity and actively promote its total development. (Art. XV, Sec. 1)
- FilipinoKinikilala ng Estado ang pamilyang Pilipino na pundasyon ng bansa. Sa gayon, dapat nitong patatagin ang kaisahan ng pamilyang Pilipino at aktibong itaguyod ang lubos na pag-unlad niyon. (Art. XV, Seksyon 1)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
The national policy on population has as its objective to disseminate and to promote responsible paternity and maternity. It recognizes the right of families and of persons to decide. In this spirit, the State assures adequate programs of education and information and access to such means, that do not affect life or health.
It is the duty and right of parents to feed, to educate and to give security to their children. Children have the duty to respect and to assist their parents.
All children have equal rights and duties. Any mention concerning the civil estate of the parents and concerning the nature of filiation in the civil registers or in any other documents of identity[,] is prohibited. (Art. 6) - Spanish
La política nacional de población tiene como objetivo difundir y promover la paternidad y maternidad responsables. Reconoce el derecho de las familias y de las personas a decidir. En tal sentido, el Estado asegura los programas de educación y la información adecuados y el acceso a los medios, que no afecten la vida o la salud.
Es deber y derecho de los padres alimentar, educar y dar seguridad a sus hijos. Los hijos tienen el deber de respetar y asistir a sus padres.
Todos los hijos tienen iguales derechos y deberes. Está prohibida toda mención sobre el estado civil de los padres y sobre la naturaleza de la filiación en los registros civiles y en cualquier otro documento de identidad. (Art. 6)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe Law determines the fundamental principles:
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- of the protection of the family;
… (Art. 100) - FrenchLa loi détermine les principes fondamentaux :
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- de la protection de la famille ;
... (Art. 100)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
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Health care for children, pregnant women, mothers on maternity leave, single parents with children under seven years of age and elderly persons shall be provided from public revenues unless it is provided in some other manner in accordance with the law.
… (Art. 68) - Serbian Cyrillic
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Деца, труднице, мајке током породиљског одсуства, самохрани родитељи са децом до седме године и стари остварују здравствену заштиту из јавних прихода, ако је не остварују на други начин, у складу са законом.
… (Члан 68)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe law will regulate the personal and patrimonial relations of the spouses among themselves, and between themselves and their children, establishing the rights and reciprocal duties over equitable bases; and will create the necessary institutions to guarantee its applicability. Likewise it will regulate the family relations resulting from the stable union of a man and a woman. (Art. 33)
- SpanishLa ley regulará las relaciones personales y patrimoniales de los cónyuges entre sí y entre ellos y sus hijos, estableciendo los derechos y deberes recíprocos sobre bases equitativas; y creará las instituciones necesarias para garantizar su aplicabilidad. Regulará asimismo las relaciones familiars resultantes de la unión estable de un varón y una mujer. (Art. 33)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe rights of a mother during the period prior to and after giving birth shall be protected and assisted as provided by law. … (Sec. 48)
- Thaiสิทธิของมารดาในช่วงก่อนและหลังการคลอดบุตรย่อมได้รับความคุ้มครองและช่วยเหลือตามที่กฎหมายบัญญัติ … (มาตรา ๔๘)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWhereas the People of Trinidad and Tobago-
(a) have affirmed that the Nation of Trinidad and Tobago is founded upon principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God, faith in fundamental human rights and freedoms, the position of the family in a society of free men and free institutions, the dignity of the human person and the equal and inalienable rights with which all members of the human family are endowed by their Creator;
… (Preamble)
Marriage and Family Life
- English
Forced marriage is a violation of individual liberty. It is forbidden and punished within the conditions established by the law. (Art. 18)
- French
Le mariage forcé est une violation de la liberté individuelle. Elle est interdite et punie dans les conditions fixées par la loi. (Art. 18)