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ABOUT APFAM
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Areas of Interest
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MEMBERSHIP
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PUBLICATIONS
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 HOME  ABOUT APFAM AREAS OF INTEREST
APFAM Malaysia's areas of interest are:
- Urbanisation and Migration to the cities:
- problems and needs of youth's migrating to cities on their own
- the needs of the new industrial class in the cities
- the needs of families migrating to the cities
- dual-income couples in full-time work
- problems of the elderly in out-migration areas
- Parenting in a rapidly changing world:
- single-parents and single-mothers
- absentee parents
- split families (one parent in different country)
- people marrying later, lower fertility rates, fewer children
- stigma of divorce
- Rights of children:
- child abuse and prostitution, children's right and children regarded as property by their parents
- development of socially acceptable parenting-skills for parents of problem families
- Rights of Women:
- violence as a response
- violence within the home
- marital rape
- changing role of women in the home
- role of education, especially for women
- the feminisation of poverty
- The Youth:
- pressures of education and the rapidly changing environment
- sexuality and sex education
- the need for the development of analytical skills for young people in the K-Economy Age
- implications of the new information technology for the young
- confusion of the young in family conflict
- Commitment to economic and social development:
- role of business and government in building a civil society
- family development as a key to national development
- viable family businesses and economic development
- alleviation of poverty
- Strengthening families:
- difference between the official definition of the family and its reality in many countries
- danger of trying to enforce ideology /moral positions and creating 1st and 2nd class citizens
- Strengthening the family as the key to children's development and welfare
- Role of family services in support for the problem family
- Prevention of drug and substance abuse in the family and society
- Needs of indigenous aboriginal peoples
- The modern family and needs of elderly people
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