Young People’s Readiness for Parenthood
| Autor: | Sigita Burvytė |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Socialinis ugdymas. 41:45-63 |
| ISSN: | 2351-6011 1392-9569 |
| DOI: | 10.15823/su.2015.43 |
| Popis: | The paper presents young people’s attitudes towards their readiness for parenthood and motherhood. The respondents’ answers were obtained via employing the method of focus groups. The survey used 2 focus groups before the course on positive parenthood was delivered to the target groups and 2 survey groups after the delivery of the course. The author of the article discusses the concepts of motherhood and parenthood. Further to it, the results of the survey on the young people’s readiness for parenthood and motherhood are presented. The two target groups become to be the students of Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences who have chosen the subject on “Positive Parenthood” as an optional general subject. The data obtained revealed the effectiveness of the course on changing young people’s attitudes towards the concepts of “a good mother” and “a good father”, their expectations towards a partner and a child, their ability to analyse themselves critically in the context of family relations. Keywords: young people’s, parenthood, motherhood, family, child, the education of children in the family, father, mother. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/su.2015.43 |
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