The family is the primary and most important institution of society, which role and impact is difficult to overestimate. The family is the primary socialization and formation institute of a personality. The modern development of society has allowed marriage to move from an economic institution to a moral one.
Today, the goals of spouses are regulated not by customs, traditions and external prescriptions, but by individual ideas, aesthetic ideals and moral values. Both spouses set themselves the tasks of a professional career and self-realization. The difference in age between spouses increases to 15-20 years, including to the situations where a woman is older. Interests of all family members have become much wider than the family ones and the circle of significant communication goes far beyond the home.
At the same time, requirements for the quality of family relations, mutual tolerance, respect for the rights and dignity of the personality of each family member are growing. In addition to the autonomy of the spouses, we are witnessing an increase in a number of divorces, a significantly larger number of people do not legitimise relations, the predominance of a female influence, the decline in the authority of parents. The family is transforming: a single-parent family, same-sex unions, Godwin marriages, The family is the primary and most important institution of society, the role of which is difficult to overestimate. The family is the primary socialization and the formation of personality. The modern development of society has allowed marriage to move from an economic institution to a moral one.
Today, the goals of spouses are regulated not so much by customs, traditions and external prescriptions, as by individual ideas, aesthetic ideals and moral values. Both spouses set themselves the tasks of a professional career and self-realization. The difference in age between spouses increases to 15-20 years, including to the side where the woman is older. The interests of all family members have become much wider than the family ones and the circle of significant communication goes far beyond the home.
At the same time, requirements for the quality of family relations, mutual tolerance, respect for the rights and dignity of the personality of each family member are growing. In addition to the autonomy of the spouses, we are witnessing an increase in the number of divorces, a significantly larger number of people do not legitimize relations, the predominance of female influence, the decline in the authority of parents. The family is transforming: single-parent family, same-sex unions, Godwin marriages, The family is the primary and most important institution of society, the role of which is difficult to overestimate. The family is the primary socialization and the formation of personality. The modern development of society has allowed marriage to move from an economic institution to a moral one.
Today, the goals of spouses are regulated not so much by customs, traditions and external prescriptions, as by individual ideas, aesthetic ideals and moral values. Both spouses set themselves the tasks of a professional career and self-realization. The difference in age between spouses increases to 15-20 years, including to the side where the woman is older. The interests of all family members have become much wider than the family ones and the circle of significant communication goes far beyond the home.
At the same time, requirements for the quality of family relations, mutual tolerance, respect for the rights and dignity of the personality of each family member are growing. In addition to the autonomy of the spouses, we are witnessing an increase in the number of divorces, a significantly larger number of people do not legitimize relations, the predominance of female influence, the decline in the authority of parents. The family is transforming: single-parent family, same-sex unions, Godwin marriages, сoncubinat families…
All of us (!) are actively participating and experiencing the “crisis of the institution of the family”. The psychological task in a family therapy is to help a client to find his/her formula and form of a family, as well as mechanisms for stabilising family relationships.
