Publication details
K nízké sňatečnosti v České republice
| Title in English | On low marriage rate in the Czech Republic |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2008 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Web | http://socstudia.fss.muni.cz/ |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | marriage rate; cohabitation; fertility; the family |
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| Description | In the nineteen-nineties, the rate of first marriages started to drop dramatically in the Czech Republic. A growing number of young people now live in unmarried cohabitation and if they ever decide to marry then they tend to do so at a later age. Our article is intended to suggest an insight into reasons behind such behaviour on the part of young people. Our particular focus here is to test whether it is possible to make a case in the Czech Republic based on the Hoffmann-Nowotny hypothesis, which claims that a low first marriage rate is driven by a low fertility rate. Our analyses are derived from two large representative surveys carried out in the Czech population in 2005 that provide us with information on how young people see the dropping marriage rate trends, what types of living arrangements they live in, how they judge the different types of living arrangements, and which living arrangements they see as the best fit for their specific circumstances. The results of our analyses show that family plans are central to young people preferred types of living arrangements. Whenever young men and women start making plans to start a family, there tends to be a marriage plan in the picture. When the idea of a family is still distant for a couple, marriage seems unattractive too. Our research efforts show one exception, namely those people who already have a child and remain unmarried. They show a rather high preference for an unmarried cohabitation with children. |
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