ELFAC’s statement is one of the 23 from all the world approved and distributed for the 57th session of the Commission on Population and Development of the United Nations which will take place in New York from 29 April to 3 May. The statement highlights that parents have a basic human right to decide freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children and it calls for full respect of the right of parents to have the number of children they wish, without punitive legislation or attitudes such as social stigma and adverse economic barriers that make having children a risk factor for p ..read more

The fair was open to all families, regardless of membership in Croatian Large Families Association “Obitelji 3plus“. On Saturday, March 23, 2024, the second Children’s Clothing, Shoes, Toys and Other Equipment Exchange Fair was held. The fair took place in the Point shopping center in Zagreb from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. A trade fair is an event where you can exchange items not needed for items that would be useful to you, for free. The exchange is not direct, we leave items we want to give away and choose the things we need. Surplus items that remain after the fair are donated to humanitarian organ ..read more

The Generations and Gender Program (GGP) is an international social science research infrastructure that provides high-quality and timely data to researchers and other stakeholders interested in solving current demographic and social challenges. On March 19, 2024 the presentation of the results of the international research GGP-Generations & Gender Program in the Republic of Croatia was held in the National and University Library in Zagreb. The institutions that worked on the survey in the Republic of Croatia are the Central State Office for Demography and Youth, IPSOS, the Faculty of Econ ..read more

By Karin Heitzmann, Astrid Pennerstorfer In many countries, large families with three or more children have high income poverty rates. In this article, we aim to understand why this is the case by examining the relevance of family structure, socio-economic characteristics, and welfare state transfers targeted at this family form. For our analyses, we use cross-sectional data from three waves (2017–2019) of the Austrian European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions dataset. Our results, based on descriptive statistics, logistic regressions, and decomposition analyses, confirm t ..read more

The Portuguese Large Families Association (APFN) launched a survey among its members in order to find out about the experience, challenges and interests of large families with the ministerial themes of the new Constitutional Government. Completing the survey is voluntary and is not associated with any financial compensation for the benefit of either party, and the data collected is anonymous. The APFN, which already represents more than 12,000 families, wants to continue its attentive and active stance in defending the rights of large families, with the political community, to ensure greater e ..read more

Regina Maroncelli, president of ELFAC, was invited to talk in the panel “Approaching Digital Society” At the Digital Innovation Summit taking place in Bucharest on 17 April 2024, Regina Maroncelli asked a provocative question: “What does a mother of four look for at a summit on digitalization and innovation? The answer is simple: The family perspective must be integrated into every aspect of our lives, and digitalization is part of our family life.” Among all the responsibilities and obligations we have as parents of 3 or more children, digitalization is the one that came into our lives with b ..read more

Pakaluk, a social scientist and mother of eight, decided to investigate why, as small families, “DINKs” (dual income, no kids), and overt anti-natalism become the norm, some 5% of American women choose to have five or more children.  By Jonathon Van Maren, europeanconservative.com Until I read Catherine Pakaluk’s fascinating new book, Hannah’s Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth, I was unaware that I had grown up in what is now considered to be a “large family.” I am the oldest of five children, but my father came from a family of 11 and my mother was ..read more

The Large Family Card will be also issued to foster families Estonia Seeks This Year’s Large Family Nominate a Candidate for the Title and a €10,000 Scholarship! Starting Wednesday, nominations can be submitted for the Annual Large Family competition organized by the Estonian Association of Large Families, where the winning family will receive a €10,000 scholarship from Bigbank. The Annual Large Family competition is being held for the fifteenth time this year. All active and industrious families with four or more children are welcome to participate. According to the competition rules, nomin ..read more

Regina Maroncelli, president of ELFAC, has sent a letter to Pedro Sanchez, president of the Spanish government, with a copy to the minister of social rights, Pablo Bustinduy, and the parliamentary spokespersons of the different political parties, about the proposal for a new law on families that is being debated in the Spanish parliament. The proposal of the Spanish government calls for the abolition of the existing large family card, as well as the name and concept of large family in all the country’s legislation, and its replacement by the name “Families with special needs of support for upb ..read more

During its annual meeting, the executive board of the German Large Families Association (KRFD) signed the Civil Society Declaration which was published by the UN over the course of preparing the 30 th anniversary of the International Year of the Family. The Declaration wants to focus on implementing the 4 large trends: new technologies, climate change, urbanization & international migration, and demographic shifts in the life of large families. We are very proud to be one of the signers – a great community which is always willing to do the best for large families. Everyone are welcomed ..read more