Family in Romania during the Communist Regime
Family in Romania during the Communist Regime

Summary/Abstract: Family during the communist regime, considered the basic cell of society, was supposed to be a model of coexistence, of harmony, the first framework for training and education of the “new man”. The highly praised communist family claims, ultimately, the virtues of the Christian family, now dressed in red coat, but not of a cardinal of the ideology of a multilateral developed socialist society, which denied the concept of the Christian world and life. Interference of the state and Communist Party are felt in the most intimate areas of family, by putting things in order; even in the “sheets”. Those who violate the rules of communist conjugal cohabitation were called to the “party committee”; to be forced to respect them. If they were party members and if they had functions of party or state were threatened with losing them and not few times these threats were put into practice. The foundation of wedded life was during the communist regime the Family code that has been adapted for several times, amended and supplemented over time. Traits of communist type family were determined by the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). In some articles of the Code of principles and rules of life and work of Communists, of the socialist ethics and equity, adopted at the XI Congress of RCP in 1974 there are references to the family. Another legislative regulation that had consequences on the family in Communist Romania was Decree no. 770 of 1 October 1966, named On regulating the pregnancy interruption. The family was, as well as on the entire society, the institution which the totalitarian state tried to keep under control. By a series of documents both of legislative character and political one, an ideological component was desired to be put on it, different from the Christian traditions.

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