Global Family Day: Recognised by 66% of the World's Population.

Global Family Day - January 1

About 140 nations were poised to respond to the November 1997 declaration of the U.N. General Assembly that the first year of the new millennium should launch an "International Decade for the Culture of Peace & Nonviolence for the Children of the World" which would be ushered in by - One Day of Peace.

Although not universally adopted, this first "Day of Peace" was felt to be so significant that in 2001 the United Nations established this Observance as an annual event. The event has now become known as Global Family Day and is recognised by more than two thirds (that is 66%) of the world's population.

Initial thoughts about Global Family Day are that it relates simply to celebrating and loving your own family unit. This is naturally most important and is only right and proper. The family unit is one of the most important groupings in existence, providing leadership, guidance and mutual support, but it can take a number of forms.

In all cases there will be a head of the family, traditionally but not necessarily the senior male member, who will provide the leadership. The younger members of the family group will learn from the older ones as they prepare for adulthood.

While the family group in the Western World is generally regarded as a mother, father and one or /  more children, in other parts of the world family units are often extended to include other relatives in addition to parents & children.

Families always have high expectations for quality care to be given to elderly relatives, who are the senior members of the family group. Traditionally this has been the responsibility of the extended family, but in the developed countries of the so-called modern world this is a 'duty' that now is often passed to someone else, usually at considerable expense. Many other cultures continue to regard the care of the elderly as being a family responsibility.

Global Family Day also recognises that we are all part of the global family that makes up the human race.

Ideally this would be a peaceful & loving human race. But, regrettably there are divisions that are caused by a whole series of global effects and crises that are taking place all over the planet. As a result the human race is far from being a loving & united family.

It is often forgotten that Mr. Barack Obama, the President of the United States, was also the recipient of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, so as such he is naturally a firm believer in world harmony.

He firmly advocates that the peoples of the world should find a way to live together as one human family. The only way to deal with the crises that divide us, he said, is for the world's population to be united and to battle these crises together.

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