The basis for strengthening the demographic security of Belarus is a healthy and strong family. A family with many children is welcome. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection Valery Kovalkov during the talk show "Economic Environment" on TV channel "Belarus 1.
According to the Department of Population, Gender and Family Policy of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, there are 2 million 612 thousand families in Belarus, while more than 1 million 140 thousand of them have children under the age of 18 years. This is about 44% of the total number of families. Almost 60% of families are raising one child, while 31.4% have two and 8.7% three or more.
Valery Kovalkov:
“Families with many children receive a very powerful multidirectional support in Belarus. This includes assistance in improving housing conditions, education, and pre-school education, as well as all kinds of support for parents with many children during their employment, including granting them an additional paid day off. And this gives its results. Only for 11 months of the current year the number of families with many children has increased by 3.5 thousand.
And if we compare it with a census data for 2009, the number of families with many children has doubled. And today there are 121 thousand of them in Belarus.”
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