"No matter how much progress has been made, there have always been problems with the family."

APA reports that the chairman of the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Bahar Muradova said this at the conference "Development strategy of the Azerbaijani family model".

He said that "Family Day" has been celebrated in Azerbaijan since 2007. "In this regard, the requirements of international organizations are being met and national legislation is being improved.

The goal is to try to reduce the number of families in difficult situations.

The mission ahead is complex - urbanization and the family, family relations in the villages, and so on. ”

Zahid Oruj, chairman of the Center for Social Research, said that anti-social ideas that are not specific to Azerbaijan's family values ​​have increased in television programs. "We would like the State Committee for Family, Women and Children to become the Ministry of Family to develop a family strategy."

Zahid Oruj also said that the increase in the country's population is due to the fact that the death rate per 1,000 people remains stable, migration is followed by a positive balance and life expectancy at birth is increased:

"However, over the past 10 years, the total number of marriages per 1,000 people has fallen from 8.9 to 3.5.

During this period, the total divorce rate per 1,000 people increased from 1 to 1.5.

Thus, the number of marriages in 2010 was 79,172, the number of divorces was 9,061, and in 2020 the number of marriages was 35,348, and the number of divorces was 14,628.

The country's fertility rate is also declining.

Thus, if in 2010 this ratio was 2.3, in 2020 it dropped to 1.7.

In recent years, the birth rate in the country has been declining.

Thus, if in 2010 this figure was 18.5 per 1,000 people, in 2020 this figure dropped to 12.7.

For comparison, divorce statistics show that 3.1 out of 8 marriages per 1,000 people in the West - the European Union - break up, 3 in the United States and 4.7 in Russia.

It should be noted that the highest level of divorce and family breakdown in the last 60 years in Azerbaijan occurred in 1990.

That year, 2 out of 10 marriages per 1,000 people broke up.

It is obvious that global and local changes in the life of our country directly affect the stability of the family.

It should be noted that the main purpose of the conference was to organize public discussions on state family issues, as well as to discuss new formats of effective mechanisms aimed at forming a healthy family model, family institution in modern society.