This is not surprising against the background of the economic, cultural and political changes, but rather a normal part of the continuous change of society in general. Today families comprise married and unmarried parents who raise their children together or alone including stepparents, adoptive parents and foster-parents. They all have the sa m e right to protection and assistance even if they do not succeed in living together as a family. The expression 'diverse families’ encompasses, for example, single-parent families, families headed by women, intergenerational families including, among others, grandparents, families headed by children, such as orphans or street children, families comprising lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons, extended families, self-created and self-defined families, families without children, families of divorced persons, polygamous families, and non-tradi-tional families resulting from interreligious, intercommunity or inter-caste marriages. For example, the lACtHR has noted that.