A parent´s absence and its influence on the individual´s intimate life

Abstract This bachelor thesis focuses on the influence of absence of parentel model on the later adult partner life. The theoretical part is devoted to the importace of the family in the life of the individual, male and female role and its impact to the identification of children with their parents, deals with family relationships and partner behavior´s models. It also defines the issue of the absence of one of the parents in the family and the term incomplete family. The part is devoted to the cause of the parent´s absence and the impact it has on the child´s personality and what the education by the single parent brings to this parent. Finally it includes knowledges about the partner life of the individual behaved by the single-parent family. It describes what a partnership without a parent model brings, the chocie of a partner, the phases of the partnership, but also the crisis during the relationship. The practicle part consists of results of qualitative research, which was realized by the form of semi-structured interviews with men and women growing up in single-parent family. The pupose of this thesis is to find out whether and how the absence of parental model influences the partner life of an individual in the period of mature adulthood