Government support to parenting in Bangladesh and India

The discussion paper highlights the importance of government support to parenting. It reviews existing policies, schemes and programmes run by State Parties in Bangladesh and India which support families and parenting efforts. It outlines a number of recommendations to improve government’s support to parenting. The paper also examines existing parenting and child development programmes to see if they address gender discrimination and stereotyping, the role of fathers, masculinities, disabilities, violence etc.