The Value of the Family in the Opinions of State University Students. An Outline of the Problem

Abstract

The family has been and still is an important asset in the lives of people of all ages. In a special way, children make themselves identified with it, so as to be able to construct a similar family model in their adulthood. The paper authors have attempted to seek answers to the following questions: “What are the family values in the opinions of the students?”; “What does a family mean for them?”; “What family model dominates in their statements?” And “What are students ready to do/sacrifice for their own family?”. This is why they conducted a survey among 80 students of four state-owned universities. The obtained material shows that the family still occupies a priority place in the hierarchy of values of young adult students, remains a “timeless” value for them, all the time being firmly embedded in human life despite many oncoming socio-economic transformations. The researched subjects tend to construct a family model similar to their own biological family i.e., the model based on a marriage and cemented by the birth of children and their upbringing.