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Children's Right to Grow up in a Family

Growing up in a family is one of the fundamental rights of children, which places the obligation on a family to provide optimal conditions for the growth and development of any individual. Children’s right to grow up in a family is regulated by law and state policy measures which try to improve the functioning of the family. The functioning of the family can be interpreted through the ways in which a family fulfils its functions. It is determined by family structure as the construct of relationships between family members and behavioural patterns they develop in time, and it is significant in order to ensure the requirements for growing up, providing a behavioural model and development of an individual’s personality. Unfavourable economic status, especially of single-parent families, indirectly reflects on children in many ways. This paper provides an overview of one part of the results obtained from researching the opinions of experts and practitioners on the quality of family functioning in the Republic of Croatia. State policy measures can make family functioning easier, the participants in this research estimate that the quality of growing up in a family primarily depends on mutual attachment and emotional connection of its members.

(dis)functional families; growing up in a family; educational outcomes; children’s rights

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