From the media - Utusan Malaysia Online, Malaysia, Dec 4, 2003

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Article published in: Utusan Malaysia Online, Malaysia

Dec 4, 2003

URL: http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/content.asp?

y=2003&dt=1205&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Home_News&pg=hn_02.htm

 

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Residents' associations urged to form family dev and support bureaus

 

PETALING JAYA Dec 4 - The Women and Family Development Ministry has

urged all residents' associations to form family development and

support bureaus in their respective housing areas in an effort to

inculcate good values in the family institution.

 

Its Minister, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, said societies and

movements involved in social work had also been asked to form

similar bureaus.

 

She said such bureaus could assist people facing problems within

their families.

 

"Such people always need a one-stop centre for them to spill out

whatever problems they have and bureaus such as these could be of

real help," she said.

 

Shahrizat was speaking to reporters after opening a seminar

entitled "Education on Children and Youth Character Building and

Successful Parenting" here Thursday.

 

The two-day seminar is organised by the Central Commitee of Sri

Sathya Sai Malaysia and is participated in by 700 people from

Singapore, Brunei, Thailand and Indonesia with speakers from

Australia, Thailand, Britain and South Africa.

 

Shahrizat said that through such bureaus, residents' associations

could assist neighbours in their areas or anyone with problems by

providing them with a place to share their problems.

 

This, she said, could also reduce the number of divorces, especially

among young couples.

 

"It's becoming a trend nowadays for couples to resort to divorce

rather than taking some time to discuss their differences," she

said.

 

Shahrizat also said that her Ministry was in the process of

producing more experts in the field of crisis management with

emphasis on marital and family problems in order to ensure that the

country's family institution remained strong.

 

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