LIMITING FAMILY SIZE. THE DECLINE OF THE MODERN FAMILY – “DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER” Cover Image

LIMITAREA DIMENSIUNILOR FAMILIEI. DECLINUL FAMILIEI CONTEMPORANE – „IARNA DEMOGRAFICĂ”
LIMITING FAMILY SIZE. THE DECLINE OF THE MODERN FAMILY – “DEMOGRAPHIC WINTER”

Author(s): Marian Pătraşcu
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: family; natality; family planning; divorce; sexuality; contemporary social crisis; aging population.

Summary/Abstract: After the original sin the family has encountered many problems concerning morality and sacrality of life. These were emphasized when the human kind has invented the TV in 1930 and more aggressive after 1960, when it was developed the internet and the other mass-media sources. Now appears the idea of „family planning”, which sets both positive and negative parts: the evaluation of health status of the both parents to the planning of the births, contraception etc. The divorce and contraception had pushed today’ world into a deep social crisis, characterized by the natality decrease. The main causes of so-called process „demographic winter” are fertility decreasing, social and economic issues, sexual revolution which has changed the order of moral values and the priorities in the family. The specialists consider that demographic winter can be stopped through marriages, the place were children are receiving the appropriate environment for health growing and love has an overwhelming importance.

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-76
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Romanian