The article provides insight into the communication processes involved in the negotiation of rights and duties in Slovenian families with post-adolescent daughters. The data stem from semi-structured interviews with 70 first-born post-adolescent girls and both of their biological parents. It turned out that the contemporary Slovenian family with post-adolescent daughters is oriented toward an open, active negotiation pattern where the balance of power between family members is more equal and the achievement of consensus is very important.
COBISS.SI-ID: 28036701
The article explores the circumstances influencing family formation and childbearing in Slovenia. The qualitative analysis showed that personal factors (such as family lifestyles) rather than structural constraints are a key barrier to family formation. The article sets out characteristics of parents-young adults relationships which contribute to prolonging of cohabitation with parents. Crucial finding, relevant in the frame of the presented research project, is that young women decide upon postponement of childbearing since they do not want to copy the motherhood role from their own family.
COBISS.SI-ID: 23664477
The article demonstrates the Slovenian youth's ways of spending free time and offers critical reflection on them. Crucial finding, relevant in the frame of the presented research project, is a reflection on youth’s privatized ways of spending free time, i.e. a recourse into individual privacy of his or her family and big emphasis on strategic ‘exploitation’ of free time for collecting competences, certificates. The latter is being stimulated by parents. Special attention is given to young people without family supports of good quality.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27016285
The article deals with experience of jealousy in relation to emotional attachment and sexuality in young Slovene's partnerships. Analysis has shown that emotional infidelity primarily causes jealousy by men and by women. Crucial finding, relevant in the frame of the presented research project, is a reflection on determinants of jealousy which stem from parenting patterns.
COBISS.SI-ID: 26840413
A contribution from the conference "Extended and Extending Families" conference, organized by the Centre for research on families and relationships, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland, June 27-29 2007, is published in a collection of scientific papers. In the first part of the properties of communication between parents and postadolescents are presented, in the second the parents' and postadolescents' conceptions of postadolescents' rights and duties. The data stem from the semi-structured quantitative-qualitative interviews with postadolescents and their both parents.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27090781