Marriage and Family in the Look of College Studentes

The topic of family is in present-day postmodern time one of the most biting. We occur in one of the next marginal terms where traditional family slowly disappears and a modern family has so many variabilities, directions and instability we don't even know what structure it takes in next decades. Goal of my work is to find out and describe how college students across the Czech Republic feel about marriage and family. My objective is to find out, whether college students did have in their worth list family and whether it was highly rated on it. For achieving objective, I set down two hypothesis. Hypothesis no. 1: Family is in the TOP 3 in worth lists of college students. Hypothesis no. 2: Cohabitation is more preferred then marriage by college students. I found out in research that family actually is in the TOP 3 in worth lists of college students. There was affirmation of opinion on cohabitation too. College students prefer cohabitation before marriage. Interesting fact is that students prefer cohabitation only until their child is born. In the theoretical part I focused on what family is and what is its function, on historical development of both marriage and cohabitation. Next, I described changes which came into being in partnerships which lead to marriage or choosing a cohabitation. Practical part of the work is filled with quantitative research by interview surveys. I researched into the sort of college students across the Czech Republic, who were chosen by random sample in a specific way, in which it fulfils representativeness criteria. Overall, 916 respondents took part in my research. Results are shown in numbers and percentage and graphs and tables were used to process data