Family Policy objectives and functions; approaches to the development of family policy. Issues in family policy.
Families past and present - transformation in family and gender relations. Public debates and private lives;
Sexuality and family. Divorce and separation and family policy; Single parenthood and family policy.
Stepfamilies; parents and children rights and duties; adoption; work and the family. Family policy in a long life
society. Comparative perspectives. Reproductive health and family policies-global and Mauritius perspectives.
Reproductive health gender and age cohorts and sexual health;
Protecting vulnerable populations, youth and teenage fertility; Comparative perspectives on adolescent
reproductive health.
