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Keywords: adoption, maintenance, paternity leave, child guidance and family counselling, children, child welfare, families, family care, services for families, family day care, family leaves, day care, maternity benefits

The Sámi people need more social and health services in Sámi (16.5.2013)
Parenthood is not taken away in Finland (10.12.2012)
Защита детей - Information on child welfare matters in Russian (12.10.2012)
EU ministers to discuss electromagnetic fields and employment (3.10.2012)
All children in Finland are protected under the same Child Welfare Act (1.10.2012)
A working group to examine child welfare practices (5.9.2012)
State Secretary Lindén: Family leave for fathers to be extended (23.5.2012)
Nordic family centre competence now available also in English (7.3.2012)
The Father of the Year prize winners highlight fathers' importance and perspective in society (7.11.2011)
Well-functioning system of family leaves promotes equal participation in working life (20.10.2011)
Corporal punishment to be reduced by supporting parents (22.10.2010)
Same-sex couples in a registered partnership get a right to adoptive parents’ paternity and parental allowance (20.5.2010)
Minister Risikko: The interest of the child takes priority (19.3.2010)
The prize Father of the Year goes to Pekka Seppänen, a peer support person for divorced parents (6.11.2009)
Minister Hyssälä appointed a working group to reform the parental leave system (25.8.2009)
European family ministers agree to cooperate in supporting families (16.6.2009)
Minister Risikko: We must ensure preventive services for children and young people (11.6.2009)
Ms Vassiliou on a visit to Finland (11.6.2009)
Minister Hyssälä: Easier access to employment for persons with disabilities (14.5.2009)