Partnerships and parenthood of young generation

The thesis focuses in the theoretical part on the changes in partnership and parenthood in the last twenty years. Specifically, the work concentrates on the transformation of marriage into alternative types of conjugal life and on the decrease of fertility and its postponement into higher ages. The main holder of these changes is young generation to which is this thesis related the most. Attention is also focused on the attitudes towards this issue. Using data drawn from ISSP Family and Gender Roles survey conducted in 1994, 2002 and 2012 the author analyze how attitudes towards marriage, unmarried cohabitation and parenthood have developed in the last twenty years. In the empirical part the author also focuses on attitude's differentiation at young generation. Keywords family, marriage, unmarried cohabitation, parenthood, attitud