Parents' divorce and changes of family rituals in the eyes of young adults

Résumé The subject of this thesis is influence of parents' divorce on young adults. The thesis aims at family rituals and their changes after parents' divorce. The theoretical part of the thesis contains two chapters. The first one describes rituals, their types and their importance for children. The second one describes family, divorce and influence of divorce on the children. The research analyses forms of rituals in families before divorce and their changes during divorce and after divorce. The thesis also focuses on the participants' attitude to family rituals and changes of that in dependence of divorce and participants' attitude to one of the most important rituals of passage - the wedding. The purpose of this thesis is to answer the question, if parents' divorce has some influence on family rituals and the participants' attitude of them and which the view of the participants to the wedding and marriage is. The research demonstrates that parents' divorce has the influence on family rituals and attitude of the participants to family rituals