Observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2024 A/RES/79/150 lifelong learning opportunities for all, ensuring better education outcomes for children, including early childhood development and education, enabling access to employment opportunities and decent work for parents and caregivers, achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and eliminating all forms of violence, in particular against women and girls, and supporting the overall quality of life of families, including families in vulnerable situations, so that family members can realize their full potential, as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development, Acknowledging that the family-related provisions of the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits and their follow-up processes continue to provide policy guidance on ways to strengthen family-oriented components of policies and programmes as part of an integrated comprehensive approach to development, Acknowledging also that the International Year and its follow-up processes have served as catalysts for initiatives at the national, regional and international levels, including family-oriented policies and programmes to reduce poverty and hunger and promote the well-being of all at all ages, and can boost development efforts, contribute to better outcomes for children and help to break the intergenerational transfer of poverty in support of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 Expressing concern over the continuous socioeconomic impacts of pandemics and other health emergencies on families, and recognizing the need to build more effective, inclusive, resilient and gender-sensitive systems to protect and support families, in particular those families in vulnerable situations, inter alia, by providing access to full and productive employment and decent work, as well as effective, inclusive and resilient social protection systems and public services, including accessible and affordable childcare, and measures to ensure work-family and worklife balance, while also acknowledging that women and girls undertake a disproportionate share of unpaid care and domestic work, and while also stressing the need to recognize and adopt measures to reduce, redistribute and value unpaid care and domestic work by promoting the equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men within the household, Acknowledging that strengthening intergenerational relations, through such measures as promoting intergenerational living arrangements and encouraging extended family members to live in close proximity to each other, has been found to promote the autonomy, security and well-being of children and older persons and that initiatives to promote involved and positive parenting and to support the role of grandparents have been found to be beneficial in advancing social integration and solidarity between generations, as well as in promoting and protecting the human rights of all family members, Reaffirming that children, for the full and harmonious development of their personalities, should grow up in a healthy family environment, that their best interests shall be the guiding principle of those responsible for their nurture and protection and that families’ and caregivers’ capacities to provide the child with care and a safe environment should be promoted, and underscoring the importance of social protection in promoting and strengthening the capacities of parents, caregivers and legal guardians to care for their children, Acknowledging that the observance of the thirtieth anniversary of the International Year of the Family in 2024 has provided an opportunity to focus on __________________ 1 2/8 Resolution 70/1. 24-24138