The Czech Family

MOŽNÝ, Ivo and Tomáš KATRŇÁK. The Czech Family. In Adams, N. Bert and Trost, Jan (ed.): Handbook of World Families. New York, London: Sage, 2004, p. 235-261, 26 pp. mimo edice. ISBN 0-7619-2763-8.

Basic information

Original name

The Czech Family

Name in Czech

Česká rodina

Authors

MOŽNÝ, Ivo (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Tomáš KATRŇÁK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

New York, London, Adams, N. Bert and Trost, Jan (ed.): Handbook of World Families. p. 235-261, 26 pp. mimo edice, 2004

Publisher

Sage

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Field of Study

50000 5. Social Sciences

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/04:00010566

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

ISBN

0-7619-2763-8

Keywords in English

family; czech society; inequality

Tags

czech society, Family, inequality

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

V originále

The chapter deals with changes that the Czech family and its reproductive strategies underwent in the last decades. Following the de facto collapse of the paternalism of the old communist regime in the 1960s and its total discrediting caused by the invasion of the armies of the Warsaw Pact during the period of normalization (1970-1990) the Czech families retreated into privacy and relied on social capital that became the most important currency in the Czech Republic. This was also reflected in the significant population wave in the 1970s. The change in the economic, social and political systems at the end of the 1980s also signalled further change in family behaviour and in the 1990s a significant decrease in natality occurred in the Czech Republic. The opportunity cost rocketed and young women began postponing the birth of their first child, the age of women at the birth of their first child increases rapidly. A number of postponed births, however, do not materialize, the share of childless women increases and the lifestyle of singles is promoted. More than a quarter of children are born to unmarried women, in the lower social strata more than a half. Children further in the line are also often born out of wedlock currently almost one fifth of children born out of wedlock are the mothers further child. Natality is strongly educationally stratified more educated women have fewer children. The divorce rate also increases constantly as well as the share of non-nuclear families. Within nuclear families the number of families with one child increases with the exception of the Roma minority who continues to exceed the rate of reproduction.

In Czech

Kapitola mapuje vývoj české rodiny v druhé polovině dvacátého století.

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Links

MSM 142300002, plan (intention)

Name: Děti, mládež a rodina v transformaci (Acronym: MLADĚRO) Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Children, Youth and Family in Transition