Santiago, Chile, Nov 2, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) organized a gathering of “experts” on family and public policy in Chile last week which pro-life groups say was dominated by feminist groups attempting to redefine the concept of the family in Latin America.
The summit took place October 28 and 29 in Santiago and was attended by 55 representatives from nine countries and was intended to provide analysis on “families” in Latin America, put together a network of specialists in family issues and propose corresponding public policy.
However, speakers and participants in practice sought to strengthen the concept of “families” as opposed to “the family,” disparaging the traditional family and “democratizing” the family without concern for gender.
According to the delegation from Mexico, Maru Cardenas and Guillermo Macias, there was “a significant absence of qualitative concepts and variables. They did not define what they meant by family, home, democracy or well being, among other things. After long hours of debate, one speaker mentioned that the family should be united by love. A woman stopped her cold: ‘Love is not measurable, the economists and experts do not understand that terminology. Please return to using hard data’.”