Populačné zámery vysokoškolských študentov v kontexte druhej demografickej revolúcie
Family Plannig of University Students in the Context of the Second Demographic Revolution

Summary/Abstract: Family Planning of University Students in the Context of the Second Demographic Revolution. The paper presents the findings of the sociological survey done in 1997 that was focussed on the university students’ opinions about marriage, partnership, parenthood, desirable number of children and their life goals. The findings are discussed in the context of theoretical debate about the second demographic revolution (van de Kaa, 1996, Matulník - Pastor 1997) and the decreasing birthrate in Slovakia as its empirical indication. The paper suggests that the decreasing birthrate is not a recent problem in Slovakia - it brings about the overview of the social-demographic studies done before the second world war (led by I. Stodola, E. Tománek, A. J. Chura, A. Štefánek) that dealt with the issue of decrease in the birthrate. Despite the statistics of the falling trend of the birthrate in this decade, many research findings, including the findings of the authors, suggest that young people do not mostly manifest anti procreation attitudes and majority plans to live in marriage in future and to have two children (the most frequent choice). At the same time, young people would like to maintain the life space for self-realisation and their personal interests. The revealed combination of life goals is close to the family planning strategies that are typical for younger generation in the western countries.

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