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Young adolescents and their opinion on the status of marriage
ŠEFČÍKOVÁ, Květuše
In my thesis, I dealt with adolescents and their outlook on the status of marriage. The thesis is divided into two parts - theoretical and practical. In the first part, basic concepts including family, teens or marriage are defined. This section also describes different stages of family development, from 8000 BC to the present day. Description of these stages is followed by another section dedicated to Evelyne Sullerot and her three stages, which the family unit went through during the 20th century. Following are predictions of futurists on family development in the future. In the theoretical part I also included the views of prominent personalities who were devoted to the family, such as Henry Sumner Maine, Herbert Spencer, Frédéric Guillaume le Play, Emanuel Chalupný or Tomas Garrigue Masaryk. The final section of the theoretical part is devoted to statistical data concerning the number of marriages and divorces, supplemented by graphs. Also discussed is the role of the state on the matter of the family. The practical part describes the objectives and the methodology used. The main objective was to explore the views of teenagers on the status of marriage and learn about their preferences in the matter. I set this research question: What is the attitude of adolescents on marriage? The study group consisted of 150 students from high schools and colleges from SS OSaP and VOS Ceske Budejovice. The used method of data acquisition questionnaire by own design. The method of data analysis was basic descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of the responses to open questions. Individual answers to the questions are summarized in tables and graphs and the obtained results are compared to results from other studies with similar theme. Of the 150 respondents nearly 55% of students considered marriage an important part of coexistence. All age groups inclined to two opinions: that marriage is an integral part of a long-term relationship and that it manifects reassurance for the partner. There was also an agreement among age groups concerning the optimum age appropriate for entry into marriage - between 25 to 30 years of age. According to the results more than half of the respondents wants to get married and a large part of the adolescents desire to live as a couple but unmarried. 2% of respondents want stay single and 7.3% of respondents want the benefit of a registered partnership. The results also show that the answers of the respondents reflected the type of family they grew up in, whether complete or broken. Surprisingly, girls and boys from broken families value marriage much more than respondents from intact families.
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