Young people’s attitude to genetic family: search of future family model

Straipsnyje analizuojami anketinės apklausos duomenys, atspindintys jaunimo požiūrį į savo genetinės šeimos bruožus: tėvų tarpusavio santykius, vaidmenų pasiskirstymą, pasitenkinimą savo pačių santykiais su tėvais, laiką, kurį tėvai skyrė jų auklėjimui, tėvų, kaip patarėjų svarbiais gyvenimo klausimais, vaidmenį ir kt. Daroma prielaida, kad genetinėje šeimoje įgyta patirtis leidžia prognozuoti santykių modelį, kurį jaunas žmogus taikys savo šeimos santykiuose ir net perduos kitai kartai. Gauti duomenys atskleidžia, kad jauni žmonės kritiškai vertina tradicinę branduolinę savo tėvų šeimos struktūrą, bet tebėra linkę vadovautis jos vertybėmis. Tikėtina, kad daug tradicinių šeimos bruožų persikels į būsimų šeimų sanklodą.The article presents the results of empirical research that examines the attitude of the young people towards the family and marriage. Empirical idea of the research was proposed by the colleagues from Oldenburg’s University (Germany), who initiated international project to analyze young people’s attitude to the family. Theoretical assumptions of the research were formulated in the works of F. W. Busch, W. D. Scholz (2002), R. Nave-Herz (2003) and approved during the international seminars together with the researchers from Spain, Poland, and South Korea (the authors of this article participated there as well). Colleagues from Germany also prepared tool of the research – questionnaire, which was translated to Lithuanian language and predigested during the pilot research that took place in 2002–2003 (E. Giedraitienė, R. Čepienė, 2003). In 2004 with the financial support of Lithuanian Science and Studies Support Foundation a research was carried out. Its main aim was to reveal attitude of young Lithuanian people to marriage and family as social phenomena as well as an alternative to the personal life style. With the help of questionnaire we have tried to ascertain significance and priorities of marriage and other forms of partnership, attitude towards divorce and its reasons, the role of children in the future plans, imagination of men and women’ roles in the family life, as well as peculiarities of genetic family structure and its evaluation. [...