About UNICEF Parenting
Helping parents give their child the best start in life.
We launched UNICEF Parenting for one very simple reason: to help parents and caregivers give their children the best start in life.
We’re bringing together some of the world’s leading experts to help you with everything from practical tips to debunking harmful myths and misinformation. Science-backed information you can trust.
Raising a child is the most precious task in the world. But many parents don’t get the time and support they need to be with their children. Family-friendly policies, such as paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and childcare, are not a reality for most parents around the world.
That is why UNICEF is calling on governments and companies to create more family-friendly policies, so parents and caregivers get the time and support they need to bring up happy and healthy children.
Find out more about UNICEF's vision to elevate parenting.
Parenting
Parenting is the job of providing nurturing care throughout childhood, preparing children to live in society, form relationships, learn, work and thrive.
On this site we refer to parents with the understanding that a parent is not only a child’s biological mother or father. The term refers to any caregiver or guardian who is responsible for the care of a child. This includes mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, grandparents, other relatives or non-related carers. Parenting is often not performed by one individual only, but by a number of family members at once.
About UNICEF
We are the United Nations’ organization for children.
For more than 70 years we have worked to improve the lives of children and their families around the world.
But many children are still being left behind, which is why we’re working day-in and day-out, in some of the world’s toughest places – to reach the children who are most at risk and most in need. We’re working to save their lives. We’re working to keep them safe from harm. We’re working to give them a childhood in which they’re loved, protected, healthy, educated, and able to fulfill their potential. That’s what UNICEF does. And we never give up.
Find out more about UNICEF and how you can help save children's lives.
