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Global Day Of Parents 2025: Theme, Wishes, Quotes And Why It Matters
Last Updated: Global Day of Parents 2025: Celebrated on June 1, the day honours parents' love and sacrifices. Global Day Of Parents 2025: Parents are a child's first guiding light. They nurture, support, and shape them with the skills they need for life. Every year on June 1, the Global Day of Parents is observed to honour the love, commitment and sacrifices of parents and caregivers. This day recognises that the family plays a central role in a child's development, well-being and safety. Raising children in a secure, loving environment requires not only time and resources but also emotional support, and this day serves as a tribute to those who dedicate themselves to that vital responsibility. The theme for the 2025 Global Day of Parents, 'Raising Parents," sheds light on a powerful truth: parenting is not instinctive, but a learned skill. This year's theme highlights the often-overlooked need to equip caregivers with the knowledge, tools and support systems necessary to raise children effectively. By focusing on empowering parents, the theme recognises that nurturing a child also involves nurturing the parent. Global Day of Parents 2025: Wishes Global Day of Parents 2025: History In the 1980s, the United Nations began to pay more attention to family-related concerns and how a child's emotional and mental health affects other areas of development on a broad scale. The year, 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family by the General Assembly. A second resolution was later enacted in 1993, establishing May 15 as the annual International Day of the Family. The UN announced June 1 as the Global Day of Parents on September 17, 2012. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the value of parents, their role in protecting children, and the resources necessary for their healthy growth. Since the UN established the Global Day of Parents as an official observance, the community hosts activities, programs, and fun evenings in addition to organising several special announcements, rallies, declarations, and events. Global Day of Parents 2025: Significance On Global Parents Day, children around the world express gratitude to their parents for their unwavering love, protection, and countless selfless sacrifices. Having supportive parents is truly a blessing, one that shapes lives in powerful, lasting ways. This day serves to raise awareness about the many challenges parents face and to underscore the vital role they play in their children's growth and development. It is a moment to recognise the dedication, resilience and care that define parenthood. Global Parents Day honours the universal significance of parents, acknowledging that they hold the primary responsibility for nurturing, guiding, and safeguarding the next generation. First Published: June 01, 2025, 07:10 IST News lifestyle Global Day Of Parents 2025: Theme, Wishes, Quotes And Why It Matters
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14-05-2025
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Memories of families and how they've been our foundation in life
Tomorrow is International Day of Families and we're remembering times spent with our nearest and dearest. Teachers performed as the Addams Family at Workington Academy's Gruesome Gothic Day (Image: Tom Kay) The day is organised by the United Nations and aims to raise awareness about the economic, social, and demographic issues that affect families all around the world. It highlights how important families are in the fabric of international communities and the foundation of society. A baby shower and swap shop event for families at Millom Library (Image: Newsquest) In recent years, the International Day of Families has commemorated all families, both traditional and non-traditional, to illustrate the fact that there is no blueprint for what a family is meant to be. A family is simply a group of people who love and support each other and are connected by a strong bond. A Family Business Network and Cartmell Shepherd insight event at Stoneybeck Inn, Penrith (Image: Newsquest) In 1983, the Economic and Social Council of the UN highlighted to the secretary-general the importance of drawing attention to the problems and needs of families around the world. Two years later, the UN was asked to consider starting a global campaign aimed at governments and other organisations, as well as the public, to focus on the issue of 'Families in the development process'. An unidentified family wedding group from the 1920s by a Carlisle photographer (Image: Newsquest) Eventually, in 1989, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution proclaiming that year as the International Year of the Family. This inspired the United Nations to establish the International Day of Families in 1993, and it has been observed every year since. Owner's family Beverley-Jane Kelly, Nicole Watts, Natalia Kelly and Flory Kelly at the grand re-opening of Carpet Ways in Carlisle (Image: Newsquest) This year marks the 32nd celebration of International Day of Families. Ten-year-old Harry Ward with one of the horses his family was selling at Wigton horse sales in 1982 Since the campaign began, many family-oriented policies and programmes have been organised by the UN, helping to achieve its goals of ending the demographic, social and economic problems that affect international families. The playbarn for families at Greystone House Cafe and Farmshop in Stainton near Penrith (Image: Newsquest) Every year, a different theme is chosen to highlight some of the issues that are the focus of that particular year. This year's is 'Family-Oriented Policies for Sustainable Development: Towards the Second World Summit for Social Development'. May Langston celebrated her 100th birthday with a party for family and friends at the Holmehurst Residential Care Home in Carlisle (Image: Newsquest) It highlights the crucial role of family policies in achieving sustainable development, particularly in the context of the Second World Summit for Social Development in November 2025. The event will emphasise the importance of family policies in achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
