'Family Model and Women's Problems in Azerbaijan' discussed in Baku

Chairperson of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs Hijran Huseynova, and Head of the Caspian Press Center Sona Veliyeva held joint press conference "Family Model and Women’s Problems in Azerbaijan".

Veliyeva said meetings of senior officials of state committees and ministries with journalists will be arranged as part of the project carried out on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Caspian newspaper.

The Azerbaijani family model and the process of personality development in family were formed in the system of national-spiritual values, said the Head of the Center.

The Azerbaijani family entered a new stage of its development after the country gained its independence, said Veliyeva. She told about its successes.

Koran, Dede Gorgud and classical works highly appreciate the family and the woman, and such appreciation must be kept, she said.

State Committee Chairperson Hijran Huseynova said 70 percent of those employed in the spheres of healthcare and education and social sphere are women.

She said the State Committee works to promote women to leading positions in these spheres.

In some regions, girls remain beyond education: the principal solution of this problem is to increase the responsibility of parents and enlighten them, said Huseynova.

State Committee Chairperson said the number of divorces in Azerbaijan has lately increased not only because of social problems.

Men do too little to solve family problems, she said.

In some families there is domestic violence, which is one of the reasons of divorce, said Huseynova.

She said another reason of divorce is that young people who get married are forced to create family by their parents.

As for the decrease of the number of women, there is the problem of killing girls in mother’s womb that can not be prohibited legally, said Huseynova.

"Every child has the right to life. Child’s being killed in mother’s womb causes responsibility. Banning foetus killing is also no way-out. I think the only way-out is enlightenment", State Committee Chairperson said.

Huseynova said women face numerous problems after they divorce and thus the sides to marry can insure themselves from these problems through signing marriage contract.

"In the majority of cases, men register their houses, property to their fathers and other relatives’ name. When a woman divorces she can not demand her share of this property. If the sides sign marriage contract when they get married they will not face such problems", Committee Chairperson said.


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