Africa-Press – Angola. People who become unemployed, “during a given period”, should be protected by the Mandatory Social Protection System, while they are looking for a new job opportunity, defended yesterday in Luanda, sociologist Aguiar Cardoso.
A university professor and specialist in family matters, Aguiar Cardoso, who was speaking on the occasion of the International Family Day, marked on the 15th, stressed that “the State should work more on the mechanisms that allow the control of contributions and taxpayers and support them when they find themselves unemployed”.
Aguiar Cardoso also emphasized the need for the Executive to think of a system that encourages professional training and those who are interested in working.
Also in response to a question about whether the Executive should not rethink the social protection system, sociologist Aguiar Cardoso said that the system in operation tends to pay more attention to those who are in a situation of social vulnerability and victims of natural disasters.
“The experience of Covid-19 and the drought in southern Angola has enough data on this reality and should be capitalized on in order to assess the negative aspects or limitations that we had, regarding the methods of intervention with the needy, as well as evaluating resources. available”.
When asked what is the basis of family breakdown, the sociologist replied that the factors that contribute to family breakdown can be political, social, cultural and economic, as well as the result of direct or indirect and endogenous influence. or exogenous.
In Angola, according to the specialist in Family Sociology, factors related to family breakdown are, among others, unemployment, rural exodus, “increased belief in divine forces to the detriment of each individual’s ability to produce”, marriages of unemployed spouses, rising prices for basic food products, currency devaluation and low purchasing power.
“We note the absence of public policies that put the family in the foreground”, declared Aguiar Cardoso, who criticized the Executive for having, in his view, “a distancing, every day and every year that passes, from the State institutions in the which concerns the responsibilities of supporting the citizen, for example, in the field of education, health and social protection, transferring them to the families”.
The sociologist said that there is also a tendency for the Executive to “conceive public policies that marginalize the unemployed”.
Granting Of Credits
In his view, the attribution of credits to informal workers is already done with “a certain condescension in their criteria, because, under normal conditions, they would reject all requests that do not offer a guarantee of reimbursement, except when they do so in situations of lost funds” .
The university professor confirmed the existence of several studies on the family in Angola, which are “available both from an empirical and theoretical perspective, with very deep and interesting approaches”.
The studies carried out to date, contribute to the illustration of the Angolan reality, in general, and of the province of Luanda, in particular, underlined the sociologist, revealing that the studies emphasize, for example, “the number of divorces and separations that occur in Luanda, as well as the growing rate of single-parent and recomposed families and cultural, social and economic issues, which contribute to the increase of broken families”.
To a question about how a structured and happy family is built, the sociologist replied: “a structured family is the result of family strategies and successful social and public policies of the institutions that operate in a given territory”.
The specialist in Family Sociology argued that the sociocultural values conveyed and practiced by the family and the methods and strategies of managing the family structure contribute greatly to the construction of structured and happy families.
As for his assessment of the situation of Angolan families, sociologist Aguiar Cardoso said that “it is a situation that inspires a lot of care and that should deserve special attention”.
Aguiar Cardoso is a professor at Universidade Agostinho Neto and teaches at the Faculty of Social Sciences, being linked to the Department of Geodemography of that organic unit of the first Angolan university.
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