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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State shall protect families as a natural association in society, and as the fundamental space for the overall development of persons. Family relationships are based on equality of rights and duties, solidarity, common effort, mutual understanding and reciprocal respect among family members. The State guarantees protection to the mother, father or other person acting as head of a household. Children and adolescents have the right to live, be raised and develop in the bosom of their original family. When this is impossible or contrary to their best interests, they shall have the right to a substitute family, in accordance with law.
Adoption has effects similar to those of parenthood, and is established in all cases for the benefit of the adoptee, in accordance with law. International adoption shall be subordinated to domestic adoption. (Art. 75) - SpanishEl Estado protegerá a las familias como asociación natural de la sociedad y como el espacio fundamental para el desarrollo integral de las personas. Las relaciones familiares se basan en la igualdad de derechos y deberes, la solidaridad, el esfuerzo común, la comprensión mutua y el respeto recíproco entre sus integrantes. El Estado garantizará protección a la madre, al padre o a quienes ejerzan la jefatura de la familia.
Los niños, niñas y adolescentes tienen derecho a vivir, ser criados o criadas y a desarrollarse en el seno de su familia de origen. Cuando ello sea imposible o contrario a su interés superior, tendrán derecho a una familia sustituta, de conformidad con la ley.
La adopción tiene efectos similares a la filiación y se establece siempre en beneficio del adoptado o la adoptada, de conformidad con la ley. La adopción internacional es subsidiaria de la nacional. (Art. 75)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEcuadorians have the following duties and obligations, without detriment to others provided for by the Constitution or by law:
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16. To help, feed, educate and raise one’s children. This duty is a joint responsibility of mothers and fathers, in equal proportion, and shall also be applicable to children when their own mothers and fathers need them.
… (Art. 83) - SpanishSon deberes y responsabilidades de las ecuatorianas y los ecuatorianos, sin perjuicio de otros previstos en la Constitución y la ley:
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16. Asistir, alimentar, educar y cuidar a las hijas e hijos. Este deber es corresponsabilidad de madres y padres en igual proporción, y corresponderá también a las hijas e hijos cuando las madres y padres lo necesiten.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English(1) INTEGRAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT.
We declare our first goal to be for every person to be dynamically involved in the process of freeing himself from every form of domination or oppression so that each man or woman will have the opportunity to develop as a whole person in relationship with others.
WE ACCORDINGLY CALL FOR-
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(5) the family unit to be recognized as the fundamental basis of our society, and for every step to be taken to promote the moral, cultural, economic and social standing of the Melanesian family;
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(2) EQUALITY AND PARTICIPATION.
We declare our second goal to be for all citizens to have an equal opportunity to participate in, and benefit from, the development of our country.
WE ACCORDINGLY CALL FOR-
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(12) recognition of the principles that a complete relationship in marriage rests on equality of rights and duties of the partners, and that responsible parenthood is based on that equality.
… (Preamble, National Goals and Directive Principles)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe [national health] system shall guarantee, through the institutions that comprise it, the promotion of family and community health, prevention and integral care, on the basis of primary healthcare; it shall articulate various levels of care; and it shall promote complementariness with ancestral and alternative medicines.
… (Art. 360) - SpanishEl sistema garantizará, a través de las instituciones que lo conforman, la promoción de la salud, prevención y atención integral, familiar y comunitaria, con base en la atención primaria de salud; articulará los diferentes niveles de atención; y promoverá la complementariedad con las medicinas ancestrales y alternativas.
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Marriage and Family Life
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(1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (5), (6) and (9) of this section, no law shall make any provision that is discriminatory either of itself or in its effect.
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(4) In this section, the expression “discriminatory” means affording different treatment to different persons attributable wholly or mainly to their respective descriptions by race, place of origin, political opinions, colour, creed or sex whereby persons of one such description are subjected to disabilities or restrictions to which persons of another such description are not made subject or are accorded privileges or advantages which are not accorded to persons of another such description.
(5) Subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to any law so far as that law makes provision-
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(c) for the application, in the case of persons of any such description as is mentioned in the preceding subsection (or of persons connected with such persons), of the law with respect to adoption, marriage, divorce, burial, devolution of property on death or other like matters that is the personal law applicable to persons of that description;
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Marriage and Family Life
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The privacy of a person, his or her family, home or correspondence shall not be subjected to arbitrary interference;
… (Art. 23) - Kinyarwanda
(1) Imibereho bwite y’umuntu, iy’umuryango we, urugo rwe cyangwa ubutumwa yohererezanya n’abandi ntibishobora kuvogerwa mu buryo bunyuranyije n’amategeko;
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(1) Nul ne peut faire l’objet d’immixtion arbitraire dans sa vie privée, celle de sa famille, son domicile ou sa correspondance ;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishRespect for and legal protection of each person’s private and family life, dignity, reputation shall be guaranteed. (Art. 35)
- CroatianSvakomu se jamči štovanje i pravna zaštita njegova osobnog i obiteljskog života, dostojanstva, ugleda i časti. (Članak 35)
Marriage and Family Life
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19. The State shall endeavour to promote those conditions that are conducive to co-operation in community life and the integrity of the extended family structure.
… (Art. 9) - Dzongkha
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༡༩) རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཀྱིས་ མི་སྡེ་འཚོ་བའི་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་དང་ ཉེ་ཚན་འདུ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་རྟེན་གཞི་གཅིག་སྒྲིལ་ ལུ་ཕན་སླབས་ཆེ་བའི་ ཆ་རྐྱེན་ཚུ་ ཡར་དྲག་གཏང་ནི་ལུ་བརྩོན་ཤུགས་བསྐྱེད་དགོ།
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe State recognizes de facto unions and the law will regulate [perceptuará] everything relative to it. (Art. 48)
- SpanishEl Estado reconoce la unión de hecho y la ley preceptuará todo lo relativo a la misma. (Art. 48)
Marriage and Family Life
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The State protects the family, particularly the mother and the child. … (Art. 26) - French
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L'Etat protège la famille, particulièrement la mère et l'enfant. … (Art. 26)