ARMENIAN SOCIETY PASSES FROM MODEL OF FAMILY HAVING MANY CHILDREN TO MODEL NOT SECURING EVEN SIMPLE REPRODUCTION, AGHVAN VARDANIAN STATES
Noyan Tapan
Feb 28 2007
YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 28, NOYAN TAPAN. Though small positive movements were
fixed in Armenia during the recent years, however, serious challenges
of the social-demographic character, particularly, aging of the
population, negative balance of migration, degradation of traditional
families, destruction of national values arose. Aghvan Vardanian, the
RA Minister of Labour and Social Issues stated about it at the February
28 discussion of the draft "On RA State Demographic Policy Conception."
In his words, during a period of time even less than one cycle of
generaion change, the Armenian society passes from the model of family
having many children to the model of family, with 1-2 children,
not securing even simple reproduction. A.Vardanian mentioned
that self-regulation of the country’s demographic situation is
not realistic: the only way to reach it is active, purposeful and
consistent state interference. The Minister stated that for that
purpose the "RA State Demographic Conception" was worked out at
the Ministry which will be soon presented to the RA Government’s
affirmation.
In A.Vardanian’s words, it is proposed to use strategy for introduction
of approaches fixed in the conception, according to which, security
of family reproduction, strengthening of family, restoration of the
system of national values must be considered primary.
According to the observation of Garik Hayrapetian, the UN Population
Fund representative, demographic problems, with different expressions,
today exist in many countries. Those are displayed in some countries
in the way of the population’s overgrowth and territorial and vital
security problems arising of it, and in other countries is the
opposite. In his words, Armenia belongs to the number of countries
of the second group.