Gondolatok a családok állami támogatásáról

Absztrakt

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 16 sets that the family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. According to Article 23, everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. In accordance with Article 25, everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. The Declaration highlights that motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Today there is no question that families with children should be given extra support, however, either family policy includes different elements in each country or the family support system emphasizes different elements. In Hungary the antecedents of the measures by which the state supports families with children appeared at the beginning of the 1900s; and in the middle of the 20th century every element of today’s family support system developed. This paper presents the difficulties in determining the definition of family support and the theories that argue for the maintenance of public family support system.