Několik poznámek k české rodinné politice
| Title in English | Several notes on Czech family policy |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Demografie : Revue pro výzkum populačního vývoje |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | Family policy; lowes low fertility; social liberalism; economic deregulation; postponement transition; late fertility; |
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| Description | The paper thinks over - in the context of lowest low Czech fertility - whether measures of the family policy can stimulate young people to have higher number of children. The author who was rather sceptical to such possibility in the past, reflects the development of Czech fertility after 1990 in the European context. He maintains in agreement with other authors that low fertility is an unintended consequence of two huge social vawes: social liberalism (value change) and economic deregulation. In such conditions, the couples behave in a very pragmatic way: they postpone the family and have a small number of children. What can the family policy do here? The author thinks that there are two basic possibilites in the Czech republic: (1) to motivate female not to postpone having children in older age. This would keep the period of reproduction rather long and the family policy could offer some measures that would make it easier for women to have two or three children. (2) Not to manipulate the age of birth of the first child but on the contrary to create conditions that women can have their second or even third child in rather late age. Analysis of these two possibilities nevertheless reveals that the more feasible could be the second one. Howevever, the author concludes that his pesimism as to the possibilities of family policy to have an impact on fertility remains unchanged. |
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