Tomorrow the planer marks the International family Day. On the eve of the holiday I would like to write a few words about the benefit and prosperity of Tajik families. But I couldn’t go counter the reality; figures and facts don’t evidence to our progresses in this realm. The degree of this issue being neglected in our country is not denied by the head of the state who has been raising the question in regard to poverty level reduction not once. Can we celebrate the holiday when 80% of the population of the republic live beyond the line of poverty? In a word, this holiday for Tajikistan is a reminder about those social problems every Tajik family has practically to confront. To say that the government undertakes nothing to relieve somehow the position of its citizens, that it is out of action, would simply mean to criticize and to hit is a recurrent time. There are resolutions, long-term programmes, such as, for example, that one on demography and stable development of the society. But the matter is not only to what extent they take into account the real situation in the country. The basic shortage of the adopted governmental documents is the absence of financial base for their realization. I may be objected, someone would say that resources are likely to be envisaged for all what is planned. But the question arises - what are the amounts of these resources, to what extent do they conform with a realization of the solutions adopted? Today it is hardly reasonable to speak about several somonis which may cover somehow a family budget of the poorest layers, solve the most burning problems of education, health service. By the way, some words about health service. Speaking on demography we inevitably touch on the issue concerned with mother’s and child’s health protection. The president of the country is quite right when he tells that if there are les children in the family we might spend resources for education and upbringing of a diminished quantum of infants, but the latters would turn into clever, healthy, well-provided adults. There is nothing to argue about. But only there is another problem related to the present situation of the society. We gave birth to five, six and seven more children. What is to be done with them? All of them should be fed, clothed, shod, taught and reared. And how? So, today we rack our brains over it, tossing restlessly, we have no idea how to support the,. And it will be lasting no one year in the offing. And it seems to me that even our long-term programme is doomed to failure in advance as global social problems can’t be solved apart from economy. International humanitarian organizations are the only essential source of aid for population nowadays. To my mind, if the government of the country really is eager to help the poorest layers of population it should concentrate the focus on criminality level reduction in the country. Don’t be frightened. I don’t mean that every day shooting and killing occur in Tajikistan. Thanks Allah, we have gone though this period. But the population is suffocating. The level of corruption and bribery in the frameworks of the power is high. A state official puts deliberately spokes in the wheels of reforms being uneager to part with the levers of pressure upon enterprises, agrarian households. In a word, counteractions against economy transformations pour into aggravation of social problems. I can say for sure that such beforehand unfamiliar or scarcely familiar phenomena as narcotism, prostitution, alcoholism, suicides are the consequences of our families’ penury. To put it shortly, the roots must be sought in social troubles of the society which can be eliminated only provided all economic problems of the country are solved. Social benefit may, in particular, open the way to the situation of a demographic problem.
One small example on the score how the unsettled social problem eventuated into the tragedy of the whole family. Of late we more often collide with the facts of suicides. The latters did happen beforehand. But in the past we might impute them to people’s insanity. And now some suicides are put down to mental diseases too. But the researches of the reasons prove that the man cause of suicides is still poverty. Despaired people finding no way out of riddance from domestic problems venture to part with their own lives. Do think a bit, what is more important first and foremost -tactical tasks or strategical ones? I would call the nearest targets to be tactical, and their solution will lead naturally to implementation of long-term programmes.