"Nisu dali gospodaru 'z ruk...“. Starost u prigorskim i zagorskim selima između dva svjetska rata

Author(s): Suzana Leček / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 23/2000

The paper deals with the position of the elderly in the complex families of the Prigorje and Hrvatsko Zagorje regions in the time period between the World War I and the World War II. It aims at answering the questions until what age do people maintained the power within their families, how was this power expressed, and how their work and ownership over land influenced their maintenance of authority. The paper also warns about the differences between the widowers and widows, shown through the differences in the land ownership.

"Repro-preneurs": Surrogate Mothers as Vulnerable Group: Discursive Legitimation and Rationalization Practices across Media and Forums

Author(s): Oana-Mara Stan / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2018

The study analyses surrogacy arrangements in Romania and the UK, in the light of media echoes and legislative change. There is a lack of statistical data on this divisive, highly controversial issue. Its most debatable aspect lies in the ambivalence between altruistic and commercial aims, the latter based on the commodification of the feminine body. The investigative method consists of critical discourse analysis of secondary data: 14 articles and 130 blog posts on surrogacy, with emphasis on analytical categories of conservative, liberal and radical viewpoints. Surrogates are a heterogenic, heteronormative category that is difficult to research ethically, hence most studies are clandestine. Held dialogues, exposed doubt, moral dilemmas and exchanged views included in the discourse analysis all boil down to the need for the state to introduce and enforce further social assistance regulations to prevent abuse, illegal transactions and reproductive tourism to more permissive jurisdictions. Discursive reactions pinpoint the paradigm of disrupted motherhood that echoes critical sociological perspectives on alienated labor and neo-proletariat, by viewing surrogate ‘repropreneurs’ asprecarious laborers vulnerable to health risks. Conversely, neoliberal feministcounter-arguments are investigated, as they condone surrogacy on grounds of free choice and agency, thus supporting transformative families and openness to alternative, non-typical family arrangements. Medical online databases for clinics that use surrogates for infertility treatments need to be regulated so as to allow transparency and auditory control in operations such as licensing, documenting, recording and reporting cases. Social work needs to be proactively involved in the design and monitoring of such accountability-oriented practices.

"Tylko mnie kochaj". O popularności wśród matek małych dzieci mitu wychowawczego o miłości zdolnej zastąpić wychowanie

Author(s): Anna Szymanik-Kostrzewska,Paulina Michalska / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 1/2017

Research presented in this article focuses on the issue of mothers of young children acceptinga belief that parental love can replace upbringing. The main research question was whetherthe mothers that took part in the research accept the myth that “it is enough to love the child andthere is no need to bring up the child” and whether they follow this rule in the process of bringing uptheir children. The study used the subscale Questionnaire of Obsessive Mother's Love towards theChild – Love instead of upbringing. The sample of examined individuals, included 113 mothersof children between the age of 1–7. The results of the research can conclude that the examined motherstend to adhere to a moderate level of believe to the myth that love can substitute upbringing butat the same time they are more likely to take behavior associated with it rather than accept all beliefsof the myth.

"ZOVITE IH PO OČEVIMA NJIHOVIM": MUŠKA STERILNOST I NOVE REPRODUKTIVNE TEHNOLOGIJE U SVETLU ISLAMA

Author(s): Marko Pišev / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 2/2012

Generally speaking, many patrilineal and patrilocal communities highly appreciate male fertility. In islamic societies Qur'an dogma givs strict preference to patrilinearity over matrilinearity, and ascribes primary importance to the biological fatherhood. The reader of Qur'an will, in the Surat Al-Ahzab, come across the verse "Name your adopted sons after their fathers, that is more just with Allah", while one of the experts on Arabic literature emphasizes the fact that male characters in many stories stand out through their fatherhood, especially the one expressed in relation to their sons. In such social context – shaped mainly by the absolute authority of faith – reproductive "incompetence" of an individual is reflected through specific biological "defect" which primarily stigmatizes male population. Thus, women are those who most often take over "the guilt" of infertility. Discussing some elements of islamic bioethics this paper shall focus on the issues whether and how new reproductive technologies are being used for treatment of male sterility in these societies, as well as whether it is – by their practical use – possible to decrease tensions that emanate from the conflict of male reproductive "unfulfillment" and traditional notions of the purity of the descent (nasab).

"Жизнь по доктору Комаровскому": конструирование родительства в советах по уходу за детьми

Author(s): Elena Strelnyk / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 2/2015

The article analyzes constructions of parenthood and childcare in childcare advice—disseminated through books, TV broadcasts, and websites—by popular Ukrainian pediatrician Evgenii Komarovskii. The article consists of three parts. The first part deals with the public, social, and pedagogical discourses of parental (ir)responsibility and (in)competence in Ukraine, as well as conceptions of parental competence in Doctor Komarovskii’s advice as the alternative to this discourse. The second part aims to evaluate the peculiarities of constructions of maternal and paternal roles and childcare in his advice. The author explores Evgenii Komarovskii’s role in the discursive actualization of parenting and childcare as important sociopolitical issues in the third part. The article draws on work in the sociology of parenting, exploring the role of expert knowledge in its construction.

(In)Security, Family and Settlement: Migration Decisions Amongst Central and East European Families in Scotland

Author(s): Paulina Trevena,Rebecca Kay / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Drawing on extensive qualitative research into experiences of migration and settlement among Central and East European (CEE) migrants living in Scotland, this article examines the role of intersecting emotional and material (in)securities in migrant families’ decision-making regarding and experiences of longer-term settlement. The article queries fixed or given understandings of either ‘family’ or ‘security’ and explores the complex and sometimes contradictory relationship between them. In so doing, it makes a number of significant and interconnected theoretical and empirical contributions to existing research in the field of family migration. Through a critical analysis of the relationship between family and (in)security the article offers nuanced insight into the ways in which family processes of reunion, separation and (re)formation link to decisions regarding migration and settlement. The intersecting and sometimes contradictory forms of emotional and material support, obligation and vulnerability which both family relations and processes of migration and settlement entail are critically analysed by bringing together theoretical frameworks of social (in)security and understandings of family as ‘made’ rather than ‘given’. Finally, attention given to the temporal aspects of (in)security, as well as the transnational aspects of migrants’ lives, provides new ways of understanding the open-endedness of decision-making processes relating to migration and settlement, especially where these involve multiple decision-makers.

(Ne)delání rodinné politiky v České republice

Author(s): Linda Sokačová / Language(s): Czech / Publication Year: 0

(NE)USPEHI PREBIVALSTVENE POLITIKE

Author(s): Katja Boh / Language(s): Slovenian / Issue: 30-31/1999

In the paper other than economic and biological determinants of fertility behaviour are discussed. The qualitative dimensions in the shaping of fertility decisions are given importance. Described is the "wealth flow theory” of material and non-material goods, and the theory of the "optimal family”, trying to maintain the balance between the "costs” of children and the " benefits” for the parents. In all modern societies wealth flows from parents to children, and material and non-material investments (time and energy) in children have grown to the extent that they destroy the balance between "costs” and "benefits” which results in the lowering of the "optimal” family size, and in turn influences the choice of low fertility strategies.

(Nie)dobre rady rodziców? Obecność rodzicielskich, przyzwoleń, nakazów i zakazów w życiu współczesnej młodzieży. Badawcza perspektywa edukacjnego analityka transakcyjnego

Author(s): Adrianna Sarnat-Ciastko / Language(s): English,Polish / Issue: 2/2014

The main purpose of this paper is to determine the relevance of advices that are given to children by their parents on their development. The author assumed that these types of messages might have a diagnostic value, because it may not only show the direction in which – according to the mothers or fathers – their child should follow, but also contain a set of practical tips which help achieve this goal. The parental advices may also be a source of knowledge about the quality of family relations and upbringing style that is used in a particular household. They can also indicate a lack of mutual contact. Making such an insight into the parental advices can be done by means of the tools provided by the transactional analysis which will also be presented in this text by the analysis of collected research material.

(Od)czytywanie losów żydowskich

Author(s): Natalia Aleksiun / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2020

This text introduces a collection of articles which seek to interpret Jewish ego documents and testimonies, broadly defined. Reading these documents facilitates a process of uncovering intimate threads and problematizing Jewish biographies.

(P)oszukiwanie tożsamości: cztery studia o angielskim Oświeceniu

Author(s): Paweł T. Dobrowolski / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2016

The book consists of introduction and four chapters, each being an independent albeit interconnected study related to the issues of emerging English/British modern identity. Conclusion and full bibliography follow. The common motives of each study revolve around the practices of constructing modern cultural and social identity, by means of affirmation or impersonation. The first three chapters deal with the shifting British cultural patterns – the meaning of masquerades and gender-related issues - often viewed against contemporary Europen context. In the last essay, which is embedded in current historiography on penal deportation the statistically presented data and conclusions belong also to the domain of economic history.The choice of literature is comprehensive. The rich and perceptive choice of illustrations, which visualise the text allow the reader to imagine many of the dramatis personae.

(Re)Interpretacija historije dječije zaštite u Bosni i Hercegovini između dva svjetska rata

Author(s): Sanela Bašić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 1-2/2014

The aim of this paper is to provide empirical and analytical framework for an understanding and contextualization of politics of child welfare in Bosnia-Herzegovina between the two world wars. Research results show that in normative sense extremely progressive and substantially high quality model of child welfare was in constant contradiction with the lack of financial, administrative and professional capacities for its implementation. Nonetheless, from a historical perspective , it is important to reevaluate the state 's efforts in the area of child welfare emphasizing particularly three legacies resulting from these efforts: first concerns the adoption of legislation on which the child welfare politics was based, second refers to the creation of (public) institutions responsible for the implementation of child welfare at local level and third concerns relationship of complementary between state institutions and private initiatives in the field of child protection based on the assumption that the state could possibly be the main but not the only and exclusive mechanism responsible for the provision of social welfare of citizens.

(Su)odnos naravne i sakramentalne ženidbe prema pobudnici Amoris laetitia

Author(s): Anton Tamarut / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 3/2020

The article presents and analyses the (co)relationship of natural and sacramental marriage according to the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris letitia. The first chapter draws attention to the fact that the very gospel of the family, within which the marriage covenant occupies a central place, is a historical and eschatological reality; it has its natural and sacramental level, its relief and dynamic history, gradual growth and development. The second chapter presents and analyses man’s creation in the image of God wherein lies the foundation of natural marriage. The expression the image of God is brought into direct connection with the pair »male and female.« The third chapter draws attention to sin, that is, to the mystery of Christ’s mystery of salvation as the basis for understanding the sacramentality of marriage. Reference is made to the central meaning of Jesus Christ – the image of God in the renewal of marriage and family, and the sacramental meaning of marriage and family is analysed in detail. The sacrament of marriage is viewed under the aspect of a gift, a sign and a vocation, or mission. The fourth chapter is devoted to the very (co)relationship between natural and sacramental marriage. Natural marriage in relation to the sacramental is seen as a natural foundation, an open beginning, as »seeds that are still waiting to grow« (AL, 76), or as a sprout that »should be lead to the sacrament of marriage« (AL, 293).

(Trans)national intergenerational care contract. Attitudes and practises of transnational families towards elderly care

Author(s): Łukasz Krzyżowski / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

In this article I am focused on the functioning of the transnational intergenerational care system. This is dynamic, as it is bound up with the life cycle of the transnational family, and on the one hand, denotes practices associated with any assistance parents provide to their migrant children and on the other – in the event of elderly people being faced with health and basic living problems – with the phenomenon of migrants caring for their parents in old age. The transnational system of care also incorporates the involvement (or lack of involvement, as far as this triggers consequences that are of relevance here) of relatively immobile people, for example the siblings of migrants who provide (or not, as the case may be) domestic support for their elderly parents. in this article i adopt the thesis that migrants who function in different care regimes change not only their own but also their parents’ attitudes towards elderly care.

,,Щастливо“ или ,,безгрижно“? Детството по време на летните ваканции през социализма

Author(s): Nevena Dimova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2020

In this article I use the socialist concept “happy childhood” and the popular after the end of socialism notion “carefree childhood” to analyze state policies in relation to socialist children’s happiness and their subjective experiences. By focusing on the memories of then children of their summer vacations I aim to show that the organized holydays in summer camps as part of the project of “happy childhood” are remembered with ambivalent feelings, while vacations spent in grandma’s (and grandpa’s) village house are saturated with positive meanings and are constructed as the most “carefree” time of childhood. Thus, it can be argued that socialist state attempts to remove children’s happiness from their home and family by creating organized public spaces for that purpose were not especially successful, as far as summer camps were concerned. Instead, today’s adults construct grandma’s (and grandpa’s) house in the village as a parallel territory of happiness during their childhood years where under “adult care and in full freedom” they spent a large portion of their summer vacations.

1.5-generation immigrant adolescents’ autonomy negotiations in transnational family contexts

Author(s): Elina Turjanmaa,Anne Alitolppa-Niitamo,Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2017

This study explored how 1.5-generation immigrant adolescents negotiate their autonomy with their parents in a new cultural context. The studied adolescents are immigrants with African, Middle Eastern, Southern Asian, and EU/FSU background in Finland. The study is built on the ecological framework, which looks at development within the context of social systems. The study combines perspectives of cross-cultural psychology, acculturation research, and developmental psychology to explore autonomy in a transnational developmental context. The data consists of 80 semi-structured interviews with immigrant adolescents aged 13 to 18. Our results suggest that adolescents’ autonomy is negotiated within local family circumstances, while the transnational context becomes particularly crucial in the negotiation categories of peer relations and cultural continuity. Cultural differences in using different negotiation categories are discussed.

15 Challenges in Supporting Disadvantaged Children’s Access to Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experience of a Romanian Nonprofit Organization

Author(s): Simona Alexa,Elena Loreni Baciu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2021

Due to the crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the vulnerability of the children from families with disadvantaged backgrounds increased, and the risk of their exposure to poverty heightened. The subsequent closure of schools brought also an increased risk for their school dropout, since their parents’ financial and educational resources were not sufficient to assist them in keeping up with the requirments of an online education. The intervention of organizations providing educational support activities for disadvantaged children was crucial in assisting them to remain engaged in education and prevent school dropout. However, due to external factors such as the re-orientation of sponsors to health programs and the rapidly shifting regulations imposed by the central authorities on educational and schooling activities, these interventions did not go smoothly. On the contrary, the nonprofits providing educational support programs to disadvantaged children encountered many challenges along the way, during this very short period of time. In the current paper, based on the case-study of a Romanian organization providing educational support services to vulnerable children, we propose an incursion into the 15 challenges it faced during the pandemic, in its effort to continue assisting children from socially and economically vulnerable groups to remain engaged in education during the pandemic. This examination also reveals the measures and strategies employed by the organization to overcome these challenges.

18. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısında Trabzon Kadı Sicillerinde Aile Kurumunun Oluşumuna Yönelik Kayıtlar

Author(s): Melek Öksüz / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 7/2005

Turkish tradition and Islamic law were of determinant feature in formation of family institution in Trabzon in the second half of the XVIII. century. This determination had special stress on women rights, and contributed to establishing family on durable base. Turkish traditions, Islamic limitations on polygamy and some other circumstances were preventive factors for polygamy in the Ottoman Empire, and naturally Trabzon.

1970–1984 metais gimusiųjų kohortos kohabitacijos virsmas santuoka ir iširimas Lietuvoje

Author(s): Irma Dirsytė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 46 (01)/2020

This paper aims to analyse the impact of demographic and social factors on first partnership in Lithuania – the duration of premarital cohabitation, the sustainability of such relationships, and the transition into marriage. The research is based on the 2019 Family and Inequality Survey of 1970–1984 birth cohorts. Data analysis shows that most young people began their first partnership as a cohabitation rather than marriage, and the average premarital time spent in a cohabitation increases within this cohort. Cohabitation eventually transitions into marriage, and five years after the start of cohabitation, almost all cohabitants marry, and only a small percentage of cohabitating unions dissolve. Based on Cox regression analysis, the level of education and finished studies, as well as pregnancy, are significant predictors of the transition from cohabitation to marriage. The results of the research show that three decades after the beginning of the spread of cohabitation in Lithuania, cohabitation competes with marriage, but it does not challenge the importance of marriage as an institution of childbearing and upbringing.

200 godina Friedricha Engelsa

Author(s): / Language(s): Croatian,Serbian / Publication Year: 2020

This anthology book is published on the occasion of the bicentennial of the birth of Friedrich Engels, an exceptional thinker and theorist of the revolution. Editors Maroje Višić and Miroslav Artić gathered renowned domestic and international scientists who tried to reevaluate Engels' works and his scientific contribution. The idea behind the book is to point out the everlasting value and significance of Engels’ revolutionary philosophy. Contributing authors offered analytical reading of Engels' ideas, addressing pressing issues in economics, politics, religion, feminism, ideology and in other segments of contemporary society. The papers in an anthology are organized under the chapters: The Reception of Engel’s Philosophy, Actuality of Engels Today with subchapters on working-class and precariat, peasantry as the subject of change, early Christianity as an inspiration; and the last chapter is Revalorization of Family and State. The first chapter tackles the questions if Engels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist who contributed to the banalization of Marx. It then investigates reception of Engels’ philosophy in ex-Yugoslavia specifically and in philosophical theory in general. The second chapter demonstrates actuality and relevance of Engels today by discussing the topics of working-class and precariat, by making comparison between early industrial society and contemporary society and by tracking development of socialism from utopia to a science. Chapter also deals on the peasantry whose role as a subject of change is thoroughly problematized. Special part of the chapter is dedicated to the influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea and to what extent original Christian community served affected the development of Engels’ thought. Final chapter brings papers that, under new circumstances, re-examine the understanding of the state-family relation and their dynamic. This comprehensive anthology attempted to revalorize and appraise Engels’ own contribution to science and philosophy 200 years after his birth. For this it was necessary to “divorce” Engels from Marx so that the fallacy of statement that Engels was second violin to Marx becomes striking.Chapter one tackle the question of whetherEngels was more than an interpreter of Marx or simply the first Marxist to contribute to the banalization of Marx.= Engels' reception is then examined both in the former Yugoslavia and in philosophical theory in general.Special part of the chapter is dedicated to influence of the practice of early Christianity on the formation of Engels’ revolutionary idea. That is, to what extent the examples of the original Christian communities influenced the development of Engels' thought