Attitudes of Students to Marriage and Family

Attitude of students to marriage and family. Topics: 1. questions on person: social surroundings of current housing situation; origin from rural area or conurbation; course of study; degree sought; organization memberships. 2. questions on childhood and youth: family constellation and marital status of parents during childhood; relative financial situation of family in comparison to school friends; employment of both parents; social origins; self-characterization of mood and family situation (scale); judgement on quality of parental marriage; most important socialization authorities during youth. 3. attitude to marriage and family: ideal way of life and accepted forms of living together of partners; importance of areas of life; personal life plan; most important indicators of a good marriage (scale); personal significance of marriage and preferred marriage age; most important reasons for marriage; preferred form of wedding ceremony; significance of sexual faithfulness in a partnership; difficulties for marriage; religious self-assessment and personal significance of religion and belief; most important authorities of religious socialization; significance of church marriage ceremony; significance and indicators of a good family (scale); reasons for difficulties of family development (scale); recommendations on improvement in the situation of the family; judgement on society as hostile to children; most important reasons for the desire for children or limitation; desired number of children; attitude to abortion (scale); opinions on compatibility of family and employment.