| Abstract [eng] |
Family is the main social institute in which people develop and socialize. Cultural values are educated in families. These values guarantee the welfare of every human, the rise of country and nation. Intensive changes of social and political life are taking place in Lithuania and influencing the changes of family structure. A big number of families in which the under-age children live are one-parent families. When living in such family a child has other, often more complicated, conditions of socialization and education in comparison with children living with both parents. There is lack of works analyzing the differences of children’s rights expression in two-parent and one-parent families. Quite low degree of studies of this problem enables to conduct the researches which would help to determine and generalize these differences. The object of research – representations of pupils studying in 6-7 and 9-10 grades (1-2 grades in gymnasium) about the expression of children’s rights in families. The aim of the research – to study the representations of pupils studying in 6-7 and 9-10 grades (1-2 grades in gymnasium) about the expression of children’s rights in families. The tasks of the research: to analyze the scientific literature studying the significance of family in child’s development, socialization, realization of their rights; legal and educational documents regulation the expression of children’s rights in families; to study and compare the representations of pupils studying in 6-7 and 9-10 grades (1-2 grades in gymnasium) about the expression of their rights in families; to study and compare the opinion of children living in city and country side about the expression of their rights in families. Hypothesis – when evaluating the representations of pupils studying in 6-7 and 9-10 grades (1-2 grades in gymnasium) about the expression of children’s rights in families it is likely that the rights of children living in one-parent families are implemented worse than the rights of children living in two-parent families; and the rights of children living in one-parent families in country side worse than of those living in one-parent families in cities. Methodology and methods of research: the research is basing upon the ideas of modern humanistic theory the centre of which is a human and his relations with social environment and also the notion of childhood basing upon phenomenological hermeneutics. The following methods of research are used in the work: the analysis of scientific literature; survey of pupils by questionnaire; statistic analysis of research data with the programme SPSS 13.0 for Windows. The sample of the research – 257 pupils living and studying in secondary schools of Šiauliai city and Šiauliai region. The conducted research is new and significant from both theoretical and practical point of view, analyzing the representations of pupils studying in 6-7 and 9-10 grades (1-2 grades in gymnasium) about the expression of children’s rights in families. The research results may be useful for parents, specialists of Department of Children’s Rights Protection, social workers, pedagogues, Government of the republic of Lithuania implementing the Family policy in Lithuania and other people interested in implementation of children’s rights. The research has partially confirmed the hypothesis. The research results show that since there is no statistically significant difference between implementation of all rights in children’s families living in city and country side, there is the tendency of better implementation of rights in families living in city. The children living in one-parent and two-parent families statistically differently evaluate only the rights to influence the decisions related to them. When comparing the children’s rights implementation according to respondents’ place of living the statistically significant difference was not determined. |
