Family, children and youth

Measures to keep people at home are important to help contain the Covid-19 outbreak, but it has resulted in a spike in domestic violence, said Jaded Chaowilai, director of the Women’s and Men’s Progressive Movement.Data from the Department of Women’s Affairs and Family Development (DWF) ...

Central Group and UNICEF together bring back Eat Play Love campaign that encourages increased focus and investment in early childhood development. Earlier I spoke to Mr. Thomas Davin, Unicef Representative Thailand, who tells us how the private sector can help Thai parents provide better care ...

Thailand, as the chair of Asean, has made pledges to protect children’s rights as a silver cloud looms over the region on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).The CRC is the international agreement ...

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security today (October 10) started to transfer Bt600 to government bank accounts of qualified parents of newborns who registered for the Child Support Grant (CSG) project.Keep reading ...

The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (MSDHS) has set a target to reduce the number of teenage mothers from 39.5 for every 1,000 people to 25 by 2026.Minister Chuti Krairiksh said Thailand’s unplanned teen pregnancies have been on the rise, aided by speedy ...

Does your child know how to keep their personal data safe, or recognise trolling? To keep children safe online, Total Access Communication (DTAC) in partnership with Telenor Group and Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), is launching a new interactive website, SafeInternetForKid.com, to be used by ...

Women’s rights activists on Monday lambasted the proposed amendment to the 2007 law promoting the development and protection of families, saying the changes actually condone, rather than curb, domestic violence.Keep reading ...

It is a universal assumption that mothers are the ones who take care of children, but more fathers are now taking time off to look after their new-born babies and their partners soon after childbirth. Countries worldwide are setting benchmarks for policies to support men’s ...

The government expects to introduce in January next year the manda pracharath, a new welfare package targeting pregnant women and mothers of small children who are low-income earners.The benefits, which includes financial help for pregnant women and allowances for mothers with children up to six ...

Parents in Thailand are split as to whether corporal punishment for their children is the right way to go. A recent survey of 999 Thai parents by YouGov found that two in five believe that physical punishment should be illegal, while another two in five believe ...