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Dr. Javier Belda Iniesta, Professor of History of Law and Canonical Sources at the Catholic University of Murcia, Vice Dean for International and Legal Affairs of the Pontifical Theological Institute John Paul II, Executive Director of the Family International Monitor. The health crisis we are experiencing has proved, among many other things, the weakness of human beings. For the first time in years, we are painfully aware of the vicissitudes of the fragile human condition. Such fact has been ignored by the West, which has spent most a great amount of time admiring itself. We have experienced mass death only in the news, as a reality that belonged, for example, to those who fled their countries to find a better future, under the yoke of the merchants of human beings. If these new pilgrims do not end up buried in a tomb of salt and foam under the sea that separates our alleged Paradise from their own countries, they turn out living in overcrowded camps, dreaming of leaping over walls built (or designed) to separate the happy Eden where Diké resides from those where a Callicles of a thousand names still enjoys the vitae necisque potestas. |
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The start of the Family International Monitor. First steps of a long period. |
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Dr. Georgia Casanova, Operating Coordinator of the investigation On 6 December 2018, in Rome, the project of a Family International Monitor was launched, promoted by a collaboration between the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute, the International Centre for Family Studies (Cisf) of Milan and by UCAM Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia. The constitution of a new Family International Monitor found its justification in the need to collect qualitative and quantitative information on family, useful for the civil, religious, lay and ecclesiastical institutions. In particular, the Monitor aims at organizing and coordinating a careful research on the current condition of family, that highlights its strengths and weaknesses, to later disseminate the results, thus giving a wider resonance to the data collected in the scientific, academic, political-institutional and ecclesiastical world. |
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Siblings' gender and the development of the child The fact that siblings are of the same sex or not can influence the time that they spend with their parents, their romantic relations and the possible insurgence of anti-social behaviours | | |
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Nearly a million children left behind in Venezuela as parents migrate Seven years into an economic crisis, mothers and fathers have been forced to go abroad in search of work, leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the hands of relatives, friends — and sometimes, one another. | | |
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Singapore, 200 thousand migrants at risk of coronavirus The poor foreign workers affected are 500, a fourth of all the persons infected in the country; 24 thousand are under observation. | | |
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