MARRIAGE IN SLOVENIA AND VERMONT

Zakonska zveza je družbena institucija, ki počasi izgublja pomen v moderni družbi. V diplomski nalogi smo želeli s pomočjo statističnih podatkov in primerjavo Republike Slovenije in zvezne države Vermont, torej dveh modernih, demokratičnih ter predvsem raznolikih držav zgornjo trditev ovreči ali potrditi. Države po svetu se vsaka na svoj način in s svojo tradicijo spopadajo z upadom sklepanja zakonskih zvez. Demokratična zvezna država Vermont je prva spremenila tradicionalno poimenovanje same zakonske zveze in uvedla tako imenovano civilno zvezo, ki je pripomogla k uveljavitvi istospolnih zvez, to je zvez med partnerjema, ki sta istega spola. Tudi Slovenija stremi k spremembi poimenovanja zakonske zveze, se pa zaradi nasprotovanja konvencionalnih skupin in predvsem pretežno katoliške veroizpovedi pojavlja vprašanje, ali bo sedanja vlada uspela z reformami preoblikovati tudi sedanje mišljenje Slovencev.Marriage is a social institution which is gradually losing ist meaning in the modern society. In the graduating thesis we have tried to disprove or confirm the mentioned hipothesis by using the statistics and comparising two modern, democratic and diverse countriesthe Republic of Slovenia and the federal country Vermont. Countries around the world are each dealing with the falling of the number of marriages in their own ways and culturally diverse. In 1999, Democratic country Vermont has introduced the so called civil unions and these unions have helped to enforce same-sex marriages which are unions between two people who are the same sex. Even Slovenia is trying to rename the marriages but it has come to an opstacle. The opposing conservative groups and enormous influence of catholic religion are making us question whether Slovenes can even change their points of view on the same-sex marriages