Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 70 No. 2, 2000.
Original scientific paper
The Importance of Marriage and Family in the Croatian Society
Pero Aračić
; Catholic Faculty of Theology in Djakovo, University of Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Djakovo, Croatia
Krunoslav Nikodem
; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This study carries the results of the international research on values (EVS) that refer to marriage and family, regarding the importance of family, expectations from the Church, the permanent value of the institution of marriage, the relation between the meaning of life and the participation in the creation of a new human being, and also the questions of the integrity of family and single mothers. The results are, in comparison with other European countries, mutually quite close, except that the inclination of our citizens towards childbirth outside and without marriage stands out. Even though the results are encouraging, there are indications, with younger people, of a gradual withdrawal from the traditional Christian approaches towards these realities.
Keywords
the importance of family; the Church and family; the institution of marriage; children and marriage; single mother
Hrčak ID:
31164
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Publication date:
15.11.2000.
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