In March 2018, the UAE government approved the National Family Policy launched by Ministry of Community Development. The policy seeks to achieve main five goals:

• building Emirati families’ capability of coping with challenges in a marriage
• promoting the stability of family life for generations to come
• providing a healthy environment to support the Emirati family in coping with the stress of life
• raising the capabilities of the Emirati family and its responsibilities towards its society and the country, its national identity and UAE’s values and morals
• achieving happiness for the Emirati family through family cohesion.

The policy includes six components:

• marriage
• family relations
• balance of roles
• child protection
• family protection
• re-engineering the provision of family services to achieve family happiness.

Read more on the UAE National Family Policy (PDF in Arabic).