Parenthood in the 21st century

This bachelor thesis deals with parenting in 21st century, mainly in Czech Republic. The purpose of this thesis is to summarize basic theories, why people want to have children, outline historical and demographic development parenting in Czech Republic and analyze reproduction behaviour of young mothers. And secondary analysis of dates from between 1991 and 1999, which was focused mainly on young parents. An secondary analysis is compared aged categories and their opinions and attitudes to family values. Czech society has changed in chosen years, became very open, democratic and modern. We can also seed differences betweed chosen age categories. Keywords: Czech Republic, family, family values, fertility