scholarly journals The Ideal Family Model in the Eyes of Russians and a Strategy of Enhancing the Value of the Family Lifestyle

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-82
Author(s):  
O. V. Kuchmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Ideal

The relevance of the research work is due to the fact that the ideal family model strategy is becoming an integral component of the family and demographic policies. The need to revive the traditional family model and family values forms the conceptual basis for the government family strategy in Russia. However, in most cases, the measures taken by legislative and executive authorities to support the institution of the family do not rely on evidence-based results of empirical research. The subject of the research is the establishment of the value of family and family life in the system of life values of Russians. The purpose of the research was to identify the specific features of the attitude towards the family and the ideal family model in different population groups in Russia using the methods of multivariate statistical analysis. The results of the sample study conducted in the framework of the RFBR grant 15–02–00203 “Development of a methodology for statistical evaluation of demographic security in the context of globalization” covering 728 people constitute the information base of the paper. Data of demographic statistics and population censuses testify to the transformation of the family model and the demographic behavior of Russians. Families are differentiated by the number of children; nuclear families dominate in the family structure; with the growth of marriage birth rates in recent years, a significant proportion of children are born out of wedlock. The age of mothers giving birth tends to increase. The results of the study demonstrate the diversity of the views of Russians on a desired family model and suggest that the traditional family with clearly defined patriarchal intra-family roles does not gather majority support among Russians. The use of statistical analysis methods (factor analysis, two-stage cluster analysis, an objectives tree) made it possible to identify groups of characteristics reflecting traditional and modern family values. It is concluded that the choice of a desired family model is determined by the life strategy accepted by Russians. For a large part of Russians, the family is primarily a psychological haven. Meanwhile, in society there is a variety of opinions on the model of family life, and an effective family policy must take into account this diversity.

scholarly journals THE FEATURES OF THE EMBODIMENT OF THE FAMILY THEME IN THE NOVEL BY L. N. TOLSTOY «RESURRECTION»

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Valeria G. Andreeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Epic Hero ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
The People ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Ideal

The article analyzes the family theme in the novel «Resurrection», examines the attitude of Leo Tolstoy towards the ideal family, the image of which in the work, in comparison with the previous work of the writer, only insignificant corrections associated with the idea of the role of the family in the spiritual ascent of man. The author of the article addresses the dispute between Tolstoy and Dostoevsky about Russian families, which unfolded in the 1870s. and shows that in the last novel, Tolstoy makes extensive use of the previously unacceptable image of a random family, described by Dostoevsky in the Writer's Diary and the novel Teen. The gallery of random families presented in «Resurrection» includes both noble families and families from the people, allows Tolstoy to enlarge the national crisis that unfolded in Russia at the end of the 19th century, to show its all-encompassing nature. The writer not only exposes the power, state and judicial systems, he shows how a lie accompanies a person coming from a random family, makes him incapable of compassion. The article examines numerous realizations of the family theme in the novel, analyzes the images of characters who are capable and not capable of family life, as well as the path of the protagonist, who in the final of the work not only approves the highest Divine laws as a guide for life, but also meets the example of a real family. contrasting with all previously presented random families. The author of the work demonstrates how, as the novel progresses, Nekhlyudov's life is getting closer and closer to the big popular world, correlates with the fate of the country – Nekhlyudov becomes a truly epic hero.

Partnerattiecību tiesiskā regulējuma ieviešanas iespējas

2021 ◽  
pp. 277-288
Author(s):  
Lidija Rozentāle
Keyword(s):  
Family Policy ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Boundaries ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Aid Policy ◽  
Democratic Country

There are partners in every country who have chosen a long-term cohabitation oppose to a marriage, although they have no legal or any other barriers to get married. It is up to each country to decide whether to recognise and regulate such relationships or not. The Republic of Latvia is facing a similar choice. Latvia, like other countries, is trying to formulate the necessity and proportionality of such a regulation, as well as its topicality. In Latvia, law scientists, students, lawyers and researchers have conducted a number of studies on civil partnerships to determine the need. At the centre of the Latvian family policy is a traditional family model based on marriage, assuming that this ideal family model is the only desired one. Other forms of family, where a child is formally raised by one of the parents, are viewed as a traditional family in a crisis situation, rather than a respectable form of the family (Putniņa, Zīverte, 2008). The Maintenance Guarantee Fund emphasizes the increasing number of applications for material assistance from parents of children born outside the marriage or in civil partnerships, also of children left without paternity, which leads to a large number of these ‘other’ families being left outside the family boundaries set by the state aid policy. In the author’s opinion, such situation is unacceptable in a democratic country, and it is a gross violation of children’s rights to material aid, which can have a significant impact on the future development of children.

scholarly journals The Image of the Family and Family Home in Małgorzata Musierowicz’s Series of Novels, and the Stereotype of the Family in Contemporary Polish Society

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Senderska ◽  
Iwona Mityk ◽  
Ewa Piotrowska-Oberda
Keyword(s):  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Traditional Family ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Family Home ◽  
The One ◽  
Over 40 Years

AbstractThe article discusses the image of the family and the family home in a series of novels for young people by the popular Polish writer Małgorzata Musierowicz in the context of literary conventions and stereotypes about the family in contemporary Polish society. The novels, which cover a period of over 40 years, generally fit contemporary Polish realities; however, the didactic function of the novels results in the author creating an idealized image of the Polish intellectual family, filling the readers with optimism. The picture created by the writer, on the one hand, fits perfectly into the stereotype of the family, which is one of the values highly esteemed by Poles. On the other hand, it adapts to the conventions of novels for girls. In this article, the stereotype of the family is reconstructed on the basis of language data and surveys. We present the meanings and contexts of family as a noun and family as an adjective. We also present the results of our survey, the aim of which was to determine an essence of a stereotypical family and how the traditional family model is comprehended by respondents coming from various groups. We also present the respondents’ attitude to the patriarchal family model and the division of roles into male and female. In our opinion, the correspondence between the family picture created in the novels and the image of the family operating in social consciousness is the reason for the popularity of the series.

Democracy's Family Values: Alexis de Tocqueville on Anxiety, Fear and Desire

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Janara
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
The Family ◽  
Democracy In America

Standing interpretations of the family relations depicted in Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America project onto his portrait of democracy a strong public-private dichotomy. However, de Tocqueville insists that family life is embedded in the dynamics that shape the broader society and culture. Investigating this claim yields a psychological account of the desires, fears and anxieties that haunt democratic society. These passions foment a paradoxical mix of egalitarianism and hierarchy, liberty and subjugation, within family life and beyond. De Tocqueville's fundamental thesis that democracy boasts healthy and unhealthy potentialities is better understood when the idea of family as a discrete sphere is abandoned.

Hurtin' Words

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Ownby
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
American South ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
Family Adaptability ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Family ◽  
Innovative Work

When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced "brotherhoodism" as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal "southern family," Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.

scholarly journals COMMODIFICATION OF VALUES IN AMERICAN POPULAR FAMILY MOVIES IN 1990S

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Siti Harsia ◽  
Ida Rochani Adi
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Family Values ◽  
American Family ◽  
Popular Films ◽  
Ideal Woman ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
The Family ◽  
Child Character ◽  
The 1950S

This thesis investigates the American popular family films from the 1950s to the 2000s by using Interdisciplinary approach. This approach is intended to explore the object of research from the history, sociology, and cultural background. The theory of representation and commodification are used together to examine how the films represent American family life and how the film industry commercializes American family values. By focusing on family roles that include the division of roles between husband and wife, interactions between family members, and the values adopted by children as a result of parenting practice, it was found that the family concept shown in films from the 1950s to the 2000s represented the reality of the dynamics of family life in every decade. Besides, in popular films of the 1990s, 'Hollywood Family Entertainment' commercialized the patriarchal issues contained in the 'traditional family' concept. There is an ideology of 'ideal woman' strictly as a housewife which was commodified through these films. Optimistic value in the family was also commodified through the child character consistently, shown by the emergence of child character who tends to be positive towards the future, focus on goals, strives for success and happiness and free in making choices.

scholarly journals The Family and Disability - Some Reflections on Culture: Discussion Paper

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (11) ◽  
pp. 666-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
A O Frank
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Adult Life ◽  
Adjustment Process ◽  
Old People ◽  
Discussion Paper ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
Personality Changes ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Ideal

Severe congenital impairments in one child will affect the whole family, possibly for a generation if the child remains at home as an adult. Disability acquired in adult life will affect both partners as roles are gained or relinquished. For children this may result in a loss of parenting. The adjustment process to any psychological or personality changes may be very painful, particularly if children have no one outside the family to provide informed support. Acquired illness or disability in children may have enormous consequences for siblings, the health of the parents and the whole fabric of family life, often resulting in family isolation. In some Asian families, the feeling that the extended family unit is self sufficient and able to provide care may conflict with the ideal of increasing independence fostered by the professionals, and limit the possibility of support from social workers or psychologists. The extended family may reduce the need for statutory support. The expectation that care will be provided to old people by their daughters or daughters-in-law may be frustrated if the younger generation of women are disabled or otherwise engaged, resulting in possible family strife or rejection.

scholarly journals PENILAIAN KETAHANAN KELUARGA TERHADAP KELUARGA GENERASI MILLENIAL DI ERA GLOBALISASI SEBAGAI SALAH SATU PONDASI KETAHANAN NASIONAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
Lutfi Amalia
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Family Values ◽  
Family Resilience ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Psychological Resilience ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World

Today's family character is well known as millennial family because the family social environment in globalization era tends to use technology as supporting tools for daily activities such as using internet-connected smartphones to communicate between family members with social media (WhatsApp, Line, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) and to access the latest information available from all parts of the world. Patterns of family life that change because of the ease of accessing information in the use of technology raises the challenges of life that increasingly heavily in family life. Therefore, this study aims to determine the assessment of family resilience to millennial families in the era of globalization as one of the foundations of national resilience. The research method uses quantitative research to determine the assessment of family resistance to millennial families in the era of globalization. Participants in this study amounted to 115 families consisting of 47 husband respondents and 68 wife respondents. The indicators of family resilience based on family values ​​and functions are divided into three categories: physical resilience, social resilience and psychological resilience. Based on the results of the research, family resilience of millennial generation is considered quite strong because it is in the range of 67% between 88.5%. This is because millennial family generation is still running the value and family functions that become indicators of family resilience in order to create harmony and resilience in the family.   Abstrak Karakter keluarga saat ini lebih dikenal dengan keluarga generasi millennial karena lingkungan sosial keluarga di era globalisasi saat ini, cenderung menggunakan teknologi sebagai alat penunjang kegiatan sehari-hari seperti menggunakan smartphone yang terkoneksi dengan internet untuk berkomunikasi antar anggota keluarga dengan media social (WhatsApp, Line, Instagram, Facebook, dll) dan untuk mengakses informasi terbaru yang ada dari seluruh belahan dunia. Pola kehidupan keluarga yang berubah karena adanya kemudahan mengakses informasi dalam penggunaan teknologi menimbulkan tantangan hidup yang semakin berat dalam kehidupan berkeluarga. Oleh karena itu suatu keluarga perlu mempertahankan nilai dan fungsi keluarga yang menjadi indicator ketahanan suatu keluarga. Karena ketahan keluarga akan menggambarkan kualitas kepribadian dan pola perilaku anggota keluarga dalam berinteraksi dan bersosialisasi dengan masyarakat. Indikator ketahanan keluarga berdasarkan nilai dan fungsi keluarga dibedakan menjadi tiga kategori yaitu ketahanan fisik, ketahanan social dan ketahanan psikologis. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ketahanan keluarga generasi millenial dinilai cukup kuat karena berada pada kisaran 67% antara 88.5%. Hal tersebut dikarenakan keluarga generasi millennial masih menjalankan nilai dan fungsi keluarga yang menjadi indicator ketahanan keluarga agar dapat tercipta keharmonisan dan ketahanan dalam keluarga. Kata kunci: ketahanan keluarga, keluarga generasi millennial

scholarly journals Transformation of the desired family model in different generations: Results of the All-Russian sociological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-545
Author(s):  
T. K Rostovskaya ◽  
O. V Kuchmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Generational Differences ◽  
Family Policy ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Multivariate Statistical ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Model ◽  
The Family ◽  
Happy Family

The difficult demographic situation and the search for an effective model of demographic and family policy have revived the discourse about the Russian family model. The article aims at describing general and specific characteristics of the desired family model in different generations to identify vectors of transformation of the family institution and directions of the family policy. The authors conclusions are based on the statistical data, all-Russian population censuses (2002 and 2010), micro-census (2015), sample surveys of the Federal State Statistics Service, and the results of the authors research conducted in 2019. Ideas about the desired family model change under the influence of cultural and social-economic factors and differ between generations; therefore, a comparison of the opinions of different generations allow to identify transformations of the desired family model and directions of family policy. Family is still a significant value for Russians, but the model of the desired family changes towards nuclearization, mosaic family life models, decreasing role of formal mechanisms for regulating marriage, and increasing share of people who do not want a family. The discourse about the traditional family model, which is the basis of the Russian family policy, is supported by many Russians only formally. In general, Russians ideas about the desired family model change in the direction of liberalizing norms and attitudes to marriage and family life, and there are serious generational differences. Methods of multivariate statistical analysis allowed the authors to identify typological groups that differ in their ideas about the happy family.

scholarly journals Competing Family Law Norms: Challenging Hong Kong Law’s Conceptualization of the Ideal Family

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-365
Author(s):  
Anne SCULLY-HILL
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Private International Law ◽  
Family Status ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ideal Family ◽  
The Family ◽  
Surrogacy Arrangement ◽  
The Ideal

AbstractTwo recent Hong Kong cases have highlighted the developing dissonance between family law norms in Hong Kong and other jurisdictions. The first entailed a challenge to the Hong Kong Director of Immigration’s refusal to recognize an overseas same-sex civil partnership as analogous to marriage. The second concerned a parental order for a child born overseas as a result of a surrogacy arrangement to an unmarried commissioning couple. These two cases challenged a specific conceptualization of the family in Hong Kong law: a preference for a heterosexual, married couple as the basis for the family unit. However, other common law jurisdictions would recognize the applicants’ claims to family status, as do international human rights principles. This article explores the scope and intersection of Hong Kong’s family law values, its private international law obligations, and the potential for invoking the public policy exception in these cases. In doing so, it tests the extent to which Hong Kong law’s conceptualization of the “Ideal Family” can be legitimately imposed to oust the claims of the “Other Family” to legal recognition.

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