Mother Center Conference: How Do We Want to Raise Our Children?, Bratislava

The conference is planned for 3 days and 120 – 150 participants, including representatives of Mother Centers and Mother Center Networks from 15 countries and representatives of public stakeholders including policy makers, administration, media, foundations, churches, private sector, academia, childcare institutions, as well as international agencies.<br> <br> The international conference is to be preceded by local, regional and national debates and dialogs in the Mother Centers. These bottom-up knowledge building events will focus on defining the issues parents are struggling with as well as the goals and values they are striving for in raising their children.<br> <br> The international conference will extract common values and common issues of parenting throughout very diverse social and cultural settings. These settings and the conditions for parents and children will be as diverse as the backgrounds of the participating Mother Center delegations from 24 countries world-wide.<br> <br> Exhibition Space for Photographs, Posters and Materials of the Mother Centers from the different countries is provided.<br>