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The Diversity of Family Forms – The Challenge for Social Policy

Summary/Abstract: The Diversity of Family Forms – The Challenge for Social Policy. The author pays attention to ideological foundations (conservatism vs. a more ”liberal” approach) of the family definitions and their impact on particular social policy measures directed towards families. Within this context she makes an attempt to identify fundamental features of family policy in Slovakia (family policy is limited basically to family oriented measures within the existing social policy framework). The author comes to the conclusion that Slovakia belongs to a group of countries where family policy has been explicitly formulated on the basis of conservatism/ traditionalism. In discussion she pinpoints risks connected with enhancing conservative approach to understanding the family: unequal status of men and women within the family and reproduction of a patriarchal family pattern, negative impact on individual rights of family members, etc. At the same time she outlines basic preconditions necessary for shifting the existing family policies towards more liberal measures that respect the real demographic, social and value development in Slovakia as well as its broader surrounding.

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