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Non-marital cohabitation in Czechia through the eyes of adolescents and their parents
Račáková, Ivana ; Šťastná, Anna (advisor) ; Fialová, Ludmila (referee)
Non-marital cohabitation in Czechia through the eyes of adolescents and their parents Abstract The aim of the thesis is to characterize the role of non-marrital cohabitation in the life paths of the generation of adolescents and then to compare their attitudes to cohabitation with the attitudes of the generation of their parents. The theoretical part deals at first with changes in family life, namely the overall decline in fertility and nuptiality, growth in non-marital fertility and other changes closely related to the spread of non-marital cohabitation in the Czech society after 1990s. These changes in real demographic behaviour occur in parallel with changes in values of individuals, so the thesis also focuses on the attitudes of the population to partnership, marriage and parenthood. The analytical part examines, via contingency tables, the preferences of adolescents and their parents to three statements about types of non-marital cohabitation, which come from the dataset of the panel survey of households "Transformations of Czech society 2018". The results show more traditional attitudes towards non- marital cohabitation among adolescents compared to their parents. In their life plans, most adolescents still count on marriage and would not prefer to live their whole life in an informal partnership. Key...
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