Country: Mozambique

CONSTITUTION OF MOZAMBIQUE
(Approved and enacted in November 1990.)

CHAPTER IV. ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION

Article 42
1. In satisfying the basic needs of the people, the family sector plays a fundamental role.
2. The State shall support and provide incentives for family sector production, and shall encourage peasants as well as individual laborers to organize themselves into more advanced forms of production.

Article 55
1. The family is the basic unit of society.
2. The State recognizes and shall protect, in accordance with the law, marriage as the institution that secures the values of the family.
3. In the context of developing social relations based on respect for human dignity, the State shall guarantee the principle that marriage is based on free consent.

Article 56
1. Motherhood shall be protected and is dignified.
2. The family shall be responsible for raising children in a harmonious manner, and teaching them moral and social values.
3. The family and the State shall ensure that children receive a comprehensive education, bringing them up in the values of national unity, love for their country, human equality, social respect and solidarity.
4. Children may not be discriminated against on grounds of their birth, nor subjected to ill treatment.
5. State and society shall protect orphans and abandoned children.

Article 153
2. The Council of Ministers shall also have power to:
e) promote the development of cooperatives and support for peasant family production;