How adolescents feel their future role of a man and a woman in a partnership/marriage in relation to children.

This bachelor thesis aims to establish how the adolescent young people see their future gender role of a man and woman in their partner/marital relationship, last not least with respect to parental planning and upbringing of children. The thesis consists of two parts. The first, theoretical part describes the adolescent age period as the process of maturation and creating the person´s own identity and outlines the comprehensive transformation of somatic, psychic and social personality. Then the basic concepts of male and female roles, their characteristics and the shaping of roles in the context of family, the mutual communication and its influence on upbringing and formation of children are explained. The parents constitute another important concept of the thesis, since they represent a complementary behaviour model that is essential for a child´s healthy development. Another subject is the marital bond and partner´s joint life. The family as an environment for life, its functions, characteristics and contemporary family types is treated extensively, as are the upbringing of children in family, manners of parenting and parenting mistakes. The second, practical part of the thesis contains a research study relying on quantitative methodology, using a non-standardized questionnaire designed by the author. The research sample was obtained by available selection method and the respondents are residents of Vimperk and its surroundings. The questionnaire was administered electronically. The research population consists of adolescents (boys and girls) aged between 15 and 22 years who live in Vimperk, commute to the town to school or employment or who live in nearby municipalities within approximately 15 km radius. The questionnaire was designed to establish the attitudes of young people, specifically on the respective roles of the woman as mother and of the man as father and on the way they influence their children. This subject was approached from two perspectives. First it was studied how the respondents perceive the role distribution and parenting influence exerted by their parents on them as their children, in their original family. The aim of second perspective was to establish how the respondents themselves imagine their future roles of a man and woman in the family and their future parenting characteristics. Also of interest was which way of living together the young people prefer, what family means to them and whether they consider having children in the future