Miejsce rodziny w porządku publicznym współczesnej Europy; stare konteksty, nowe wyzwania

• Authors: Firlit-Fesnak Grażyna

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The place of the family in the public order of contemporary Europe; old contexts, new challenges

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

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The article provides an analysis of the European family as a community that combines private order with public order. The time frame of the analysis comprises the last five decades and shows the mutual relations of the two orders in a process of continuity and change. The first part presents the exogenous conditions of family change such as: macroeconomics, social policy systems in European countries, selected ideologies. Their impact on the following factors is discussed: patterns of family formation, models of family organization, division of roles and the character of bonds within the family, the attitude of Europeans to the persistence of the family, its breakup and reconstruction, which essentially changes the paradigm – relevant for centuries of the human culture – of thinking about the family as a community that co-creates public order. This change of paradigm has led in many countries to a privatization of the family. The next part expands on the character of changes in defining the family in Europe. An analysis of the basic laws of the EU member states is undertaken from the perspective of a deficit/presence of different contexts in which the family is perceived in the normative order. This analysis is complemented by a review of the basic normative acts of the EU, indicating a lack of reference to the family in EU policy. The stance of the Catholic Church is also discussed as it continues to remain the most consistent institution in protecting the traditional family system and its presence in the public and political order of the state. The third part presents the types of relations between the family and the public sphere in the political order of states in contemporary Europe. Areas of the tasks and functions of the family which are co-responsible for the current social and political order in our region are identified vis-à-vis a changing work world, the realities of the effectiveness of the social state and the transformations of mass culture.

Keywords

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family; family order; public order

• Publisher: Instytut Zachodni. Instytut Naukowo-Badawczy im. Zygmunta Wojciechowskiego w Poznaniu
• Journal: Przegląd Zachodni
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 4(365)
• Pages: 107-131

Contributors

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Firlit-Fesnak Grażyna

• Instytut Polityki Społecznej, Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warszawski