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Newsletter - European Large Families Confederation (ELFAC) - July 2024
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| Large families have one problem: It is difficult to get them in a photo together. When the youngest is born, the oldest ones are already flying out. |
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The Portuguese Large Families Association (APFN) has released a national comparative study of the three basic household utilities.
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| Germany: Five Euros go to Waste |
| Dr. Elisabeth Müller, the chairwoman of the Association of Large Families in Germany KRFD, is cautious about the renewed increase in child benefit, the immediate child supplement and the child allowance from 2025. |
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Portugal is the country in the European Union (EU) with the highest proportion of families with only one child, according to PORDATA.
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Europe must address the continent’s most pressing and existential crisis: the demographic winter. The Hungarian EU presidency’s inclusion of demography in its priorities is commendable, yet the challenge must be addressed across all policy areas.
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Sweden launched a groundbreaking new law that allows grandparents to step in and get paid parental leave while taking care of their grandchildren for up to three months of a child’s first year.
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Slow start because not all potential beneficiaries have requested the tax relief introduced by the law on their paychecks. For the association of large families is a positive measure but with some limitations.
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What impact has the ‘two-child limit’ in universal credit had, and what policy choices does the next government face?
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While the figures from the registry authorities show that 2024 will set a new low in the number of births, the government is currently looking for measures that will strengthen the policy which is summed up by the “one more child” motto.
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September 3 - September 5
HOW TO WORK FOR FAMILIES WORLDWIDE
Preparation and follow-up of the Second World Social Summit in 2025.
University of Warsaw, 3-4-5 September 2024. |
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November 2 |12:00 am - November 3 |11:59 pm
The 14th National Congress of Large Families will be held on 2 and 3 November in Donostia/San Sebastián at the Kursaal Palace in collaboration with Hirukide, the Federation of Associations of Large Families of the Basque Country. |
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Overcoming sectoral fragmentation in supporting families with young children.
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The publication “Demography and competitiveness in the European Union”presents the correlation between demographic trends and competitiveness in 13 chapters.
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We publish this article as a sample of all the small discriminations that large families suffer, and which are common in all countries (in this case, about the trash system in a town of the United States).
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Interview with Magdalena Archacka (PhD), mother and Dean of the Pedagogy Department at the Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź (Poland).
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On the occasion of International Family Day, the Large Families Association of Croatia is bringing to us an inspiring interview with the Jarnjak couple, from a small town near Varaždin and parents of five children.
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