The congress allows anti-choice associations to meet associations who are against freedom of choice with regard to relations, sexuality and family planning.
Neil Datta, secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development has documented the ideology and transnational connections of the organisations behind the World Congress in a research report entitled 'Restoring the Natural Order' and Arté covered the congress in a 2017 documentary on anti-abortion movements in Europe.
In protest to the organisation of the World Congress of Families, ten thousand Italians took the streets in Verona.