Educational Values Within The Contemporary Czech Family From The Perspective Of Fathers Under Forty Years Of Age

The position of father in family is a well debated topic of these days. Fathers today are not considered to be the breadwinners of family but their status is much more important. They are involved in upbringing of the children, they look after them in the same way as mothers do and some of them are even on maternity leave which as we know from the professional sources was not heard of in the past. The objective of this bachelor thesis was to find out the fathers´ point of view of current Czech family and values inside it and to answer the following questions: whether the way of upbringing of the respondents is affected by the approach of their parents during their childhood, how the respondents perceive the current Czech family and the educational values inside it, what values the respondents prefer when bringing up their own children, what the respondents position in the family is. For the empiric part of the bachelor thesis qualitative research with the method of half structured interview and the technique of inquiry was used. Research aggregate chosen with the method of snow ball consisted of 19 fathers younger than 40 living in the town of Benešov and its area. The result of work shows that majority of fathers younger than 40 feel affected by the upbringing of their original family. Their view of current Czech family is very sceptical in most cases and the large majority of fathers younger than 40 consider material values the highest respected value. Research regarding the educational values of father under the age of 40 in their family showed that the fathers put the strongest emphasis on education to diligence and responsibility. Most fathers can be described as active fathers who participate in upbringing of their children in all possible aspects.