Table of Contents // 1. Foreword... 7 // 2. Methodological Note... 9 // 3. Marriage, Cohabitation, Children. The Family Lifestyles ... 13 // 3.1 Introduction...13 // 3.2 The Family or Non-Family. Contemporary Forms of Relationships ...14 // 3.3 Marriage or Cohabitation? A Preferred Model of Living Together . 18 // 3.4 Preferred Models of Marriage...21 // 3.5 An Appropriate Age to Get Married...24 // 3.6 An Appropriate Age to Have Children...27 // 3.7 Respondents’ Views on the Preferred Number of Children ... 32 // 3.8 Conclusions...35 // 4. Cohabitation. An Informal Lifestyle...37 // 4.1 Introduction...37 // 4.2 Cohabitation. A Competition for Marriage?...38 // 4.3 The Creation of Beneficial Conditions for Raising Children by // Cohabiting Couples...41 // 4.4 Are Cohabiting Couples Happy Families?...43 // 4.5 A Possibility to Adopt Children by Cohabiting Couples ... 45 // 4.6 Conclusions... 46 // 5. Trust as a Value of Family Life...49 // 5.1 Introduction...49 // 5.2 Trust as a Foundation of Social Life...51 // 5.3 Adolescents’ Bets of Trust...54 // 5.4 Emotional Ties in the Family...57 // 5.5 Parents’ Bets of Trust...62 // 5.6 Family Ties as Perceived by the Generation of Parents...65 // 6 // Table of Contents // 5.7 Children and Their Parents’ Attitudes Towards Trust as a Value . 67 // 5.8 Conclusions...69 // 6. Religiosity. An Intergenerational Perspective...73 // 6.1 Introduction...73 // 6.2 Religiousness of Children...77 // 6.3 Parents’ Religiousness...86 // 6.4
Similarities and Differences in the Religiosity of Parents and Their // Children...90 // 6.5 Conclusions...95 // 7. Patterns of Everyday Life Characterizing Christian Families in the // Nitra Region...99 // 7.1 Introduction. The Family and Society...99 // 7.2 The Family in the Contemporary World. A Dynamics of Its Roles // and Functions...100 // 7.3 Christian Families as an Object of Research. A Characteristic of // Empirical Material...107 // 7.4 Family Structure...108 // 7.5 Family Roles: Functions and Housekeeping Duties...110 // 7.6 Family Ties and Mutual Aid...116 // 7.7 Social Interactions within Families...120 // 7.8 Conclusions...125 // References...127 // Résumé...I33 // Resumen...136