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Marriage and Family in the Look of College Studentes
SLOBODOVÁ, Lenka
The topic of family is in present-day postmodern time one of the most biting. We occur in one of the next marginal terms where traditional family slowly disappears and a modern family has so many variabilities, directions and instability we don't even know what structure it takes in next decades. Goal of my work is to find out and describe how college students across the Czech Republic feel about marriage and family. My objective is to find out, whether college students did have in their worth list family and whether it was highly rated on it. For achieving objective, I set down two hypothesis. Hypothesis no. 1: Family is in the TOP 3 in worth lists of college students. Hypothesis no. 2: Cohabitation is more preferred then marriage by college students. I found out in research that family actually is in the TOP 3 in worth lists of college students. There was affirmation of opinion on cohabitation too. College students prefer cohabitation before marriage. Interesting fact is that students prefer cohabitation only until their child is born. In the theoretical part I focused on what family is and what is its function, on historical development of both marriage and cohabitation. Next, I described changes which came into being in partnerships which lead to marriage or choosing a cohabitation. Practical part of the work is filled with quantitative research by interview surveys. I researched into the sort of college students across the Czech Republic, who were chosen by random sample in a specific way, in which it fulfils representativeness criteria. Overall, 916 respondents took part in my research. Results are shown in numbers and percentage and graphs and tables were used to process data.
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The Family from the Viewpoint of Several Generations
SLOBODOVÁ, Lenka
Nowadays family stuff is one of the most biting topics to talk about. That situates us to next cut-off point, where traditional family slowly disappears. Modern family has too much variability, directions and instability we could not foresee what structure it could have in upcoming decades. Family is a headstone of our society these days, as it was in the past but its basic values have changed. Preferences of marriage rate have decreased and a new trend is coming up to our society - cohabitation. Most of young people are hanging out a marriage until they have their first child. Few couples hang out a marriage a bit longer or they don't plan it at all. Young generation doesn't see any pros in being married and from that reason they prefer cohabitation. My main goal was to find out opinions on marriage and cohabitation of three different age categories. Other goals were to find out reasons why young people tend to decrease marriage rate and why a new trend of cohabitation appears. The last goal I had was to find out if young people want to get married in their future. The other two age categories were likely involved because of reasoning of their marriage and cohabitation opinions. My work consists of theoretical and also practical part. The theoretic one is set to family. I engage with a meaning of a term "family" and its definition and I describe there function and functionality of it. I also described marriage and cohabitation in a view of historical progress. I tried to chalk out changes which appeared in relationships and which lead to choice of marriage or cohabitation. In practical part I compared opinions of three generations on marriage and cohabitation. My research proceeded by introduction to question blank, quantitative research and by asking method. The researched group consisted of three generations with different age: 18-30 years (young generation), 47-59 years (middle generation) and 70-80 years (elder generation). Overall 552 respondents took part in my research. 278 respondents were in age interval of 18-30 years, 138 respondents were in age interval of 47-59 years and 136 respondents were in age interval of 70-80 years. The results are in showed in numbers and percentage. Data processing was made with graphs and tables as well. For achieving my goal I specified two hypotheses. Second hypothesis was approved, but the first hypothesis was refuted. The results demonstrate that young people see a trying of cohabitation and late marriage as an ideal relationship. Simultaneously their marriage should be after their first child. The majority of respondents live with boy- or girlfriend. According to young generation a marriage has still its own place in society and also verifies choice of partner for a mutual life. Ideal relationship for a middle generation is trying of cohabitation at first with a marriage later with preferring of marriage instead of living without it. Most of respondents in this group are married. Marriage verifies choice of partner for a mutual life for them and still has its place in society. This generation also doesn't deprecate cohabitation, those people tolerate it. For the elder generation marriage is top as well in the ideal mutual life as in their lives. Fort those people marriage verifies choice of partner for a mutual life and is also important for raising children. Elder generation mostly doesn't agree with cohabitation but doesn't deprecate it at all. One of my questions was directed on child, whether it's better for it to be born to marriage or not. All of the three generations answered nearly the same; child should be born to marriage. From the number of all 552 respondents 357 answered this.
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