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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEveryone shall be free to decide whether to bear children.
The state shall guarantee the opportunities for exercising this freedom and shall create such conditions as will enable parents to decide to bear children. (Art. 55) - SloveneOdločanje o rojstvih svojih otrok je svobodno.
Država zagotavlja možnosti za uresničevanje te svoboščine in ustvarja razmere, ki omogočajo staršem, da se odločajo za rojstva svojih otrok. (55. Člen)
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
- EnglishMarriage and the family constitute the natural and moral base of the human community. They are placed under the protection of the State.
The State and the public collectivities have the duty to see to the physical and moral health of the family and, in particular of the handicapped persons and of elderly [âgées] persons.
The State guarantees to families in general, and to those living in [the] rural milieu in particular [,] the access to the services of health and of well being. It guarantees equally to women in general and to those living in [the] rural milieu in particular, the right to alleviation of their conditions of life. (Art. 17) - FrenchLe mariage et la famille constituent la base naturelle et morale de la communauté humaine. Ils sont placés sous la protection de l’Etat.
L’Etat et les collectivités publiques ont le devoir de veiller à la santé physique et morale de la famille et, en particulier des personnes handicapées et des personnes âgées.
L’Etat garantit aux familles en général et à celles vivant en milieu rural en particulier l’accès aux services de santé et au bien être. Il garantit également aux femmes en général et à celles vivant en milieu rural en particulier, le droit à l’allègement de leurs conditions de vie. (Art. 17)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe actions against alcoholism, drug addiction, and other causes of family disintegration[,] are declared to be of social interest. The State must take the adequate measures of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation to make said actions effective, for the well being of the individual, the family, and the society. (Art. 56)
- SpanishSe declara de interés social, las acciones contra el alcoholismo, la drogadicción y otras causas de desintegración familiar. El Estado deberá tomar las medidas de prevención, trata miento y rehabilitación adecuadas para hacer efectivas dichas acciones, por el bienestar del individuo, la familia y la sociedad. (Art. 56)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEveryone has the right to a house, both for himself or herself and for his or her family, of adequate size that meets satisfactory standards of hygiene and comfort and preserves personal intimacy and family privacy. (Sec. 58)
- TetumEma hotu iha direitu ba nia an, nia família atu iha uma ida ho nia dimensaun no kondisaun di’ak, moos no konfortu atu bele iha intimidade ba ema idaidak no privasidade familiár. (Art. 58)
- PortugueseTodos têm direito, para si e para a sua família, a uma habitação de dimensão adequada, em condições de higiene e conforto e que preserve a intimidade pessoal e a privacidade familiar. (Art. 58)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishThe following are determined exclusively by the laws of Ukraine:
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6) … the principles of the regulation of labour and employment, marriage, family, the protection of childhood, motherhood and fatherhood; upbringing, education, culture and health care;
… (Art. 92) - UkrainianВиключно законами України визначаються:
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6) … засади регулювання праці і зайнятості, шлюбу, сім'ї, охорони дитинства, материнства, батьківства; виховання, освіти, культури і охорони здоров'я;
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Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishEvery person of marriageable age shall have the right to marry a person of the opposite sex and to found a family according to their respective family laws, and no marriage shall be entered into without the free and full consent of the man and woman intending to marry. (Art. 15)
Marriage and Family Life
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3. The State and society shall create an environment for building prosperous, progressive and happy Vietnamese families, and developing Vietnamese people with good health, cultural qualities, patriotism, a spirit of solidarity, a sense of mastery and civic responsibility. (Art. 60) - Vietnamese…
3. Nhà nước, xã hội tạo môi trường xây dựng gia đình Việt Nam ấm no, tiến bộ, hạnh phúc; xây dựng con người Việt Nam có sức khỏe, văn hóa, giàu lòng yêu nước, có tinh thần đoàn kết, ý thức làm chủ, trách nhiệm công dân. (Điều 60)
Marriage and Family Life
- EnglishWE HEREBY DECLARE that all persons in our country have the following basic obligations to themselves and their descendants, to each other, and to the Nation:-
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(h) in the case of parents, to support, assist and educate their children (whether born in or out of wedlock), and in particular to give them a true understanding of their basic rights and obligations and of the National Goals and Directive Principles;
(i) in the case of the children, to respect their parents.
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Marriage and Family Life
- English[The following] are of the domain of the law:
The rules concerning the following matters:
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– … the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and gifts;
… (Art. 80) - FrenchSont du domaine de la loi:
Les règles relatives aux matières suivantes:
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- … l’état et la capacité des personnes, les régimes matrimoniaux, les successions et les libéralités;
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