Małżeństwo a funkcjonowanie rodziny
Mariage and Family Functioning

Summary/Abstract: Marriage and family are social structures that although they are closely related, they are not identical. What is making them different is: specificity of the relation, the nature of power and functions, roles and tasks which socially were granted them. The study of marriage is a subject of various scientific disciplines such as law, theology, sociology and psychology. According to assumptions of the system theory the quality and character of the relation between spouses in the significant way are projecting onto the family entire system. We may say, that the marriage constitutes the important point of reference, the base, on which relations and bonds are being built between members of other family subsystems, a family system of values is being shaped and ways of communicating and solving family conflicts. Discussing the issues so much folded and diversified concerning the interrelation among the married couple and the family in one article due to limited volume frames, is impossible. Therefore, in this study are presented only some of the issues that point to the role that marriage fulfills towards other family subsystems i.e. parental subsystem or siblings subsystem. Particular attention in this article has been paid to issues such as interdisciplinary nature of research on marriage; resemblance of partners as marital selection criteria; marriage as a subsystem of the family; communication, as the base that spouses can efficiently cope with the tasks of life.

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