* Marriage and its Meaning in czech public Opinion
Michaela Dimitrová
2007/2
Family may be defi ned as a relatively durable group of persons which is based on blood relations, is caused by
marriage eventually by adoption and its main functions are reproduction, upbringing, but also carry over cultural models.
Meaning of marriage institution is very often discussed topic not only in context of this defi nition. These discussions are
provoked not only by opinions and questions in terms of marriage as an outworn institution, but also by the results of
demographic statistic. In these results we can see trends of decreasing nuptiality, perhaps even weakening of family in
the basic word sense (low fertility in general, growth of proportion of extramarital born children etc.). Introductory part
of this article aff ords view of continuance of nuptiality during the twentieth century and also outline of some aspects that
contribute to current nuptiality situation. The second part is focused on attitudes of Czech public towards marriage and on
their ideas about importance and sense of marriage as well as.
Family may be defi ned as a relatively durable group of persons which is based on blood relations, is caused by marriage eventually by adoption and its main functions are reproduction, upbringing, but also carry over cultural models. Meaning of marriage institution is very often discussed topic not only in context of this defi nition. These discussions are provoked not only by opinions and questions in terms of marriage as an outworn institution, but also by the results of demographic statistic. In these results we can see trends of decreasing nuptiality, perhaps even weakening of family in the basic word sense (low fertility in general, growth of proportion of extramarital born children etc.). Introductory part of this article aff ords view of continuance of nuptiality during the twentieth century and also outline of some aspects that contribute to current nuptiality situation. The second part is focused on attitudes of Czech public towards marriage and on their ideas about importance and sense of marriage as well as.
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