| Abstract [eng] |
Emigrational processes from Lithuania negatively affect not only country’s social and economic evolution. However, the condition of education, employment, health care, and other spheres are affected as well, especially having in mind families and children, who live separately because of emigration causes. Child has a right to know his/her parents, to be educated and nourished by the members of family, and also to communicate with parents. One of the parents emigration is quite an impact for a child, who puts much effort while internalizing family’s traditions, values, and forming self identity, i.e. self I. By loosing one of the parents, child loses his/her identity. Thus in this Master research project, taking in account both quantitative and qualitative methods (based on triangulation principle), such issues were taken to solve: a) children, who have experienced parents’ emigration, socialization peculiarities based on their behavior level that expresses internalized values; b) existing differences of such children – both experienced and non-experienced parents’ emigration – behavior; c) possible factors that may have an influence for the effectiveness of those children care, guardianship, and their rights protection. It was set that children, who have experienced parents’ emigration, behavior in some cases statistically meaningful differ from those who do not have such an experience, e.g. having in mind such values as openness, self-control, and solidarity. Meanwhile children from the nuclear families much actively show their openness, self-confidence, sensitiveness, and respect of others. Also children from the emigrant families have much negative attitudes towards their home, parents, and emigration phenomenon in general. While analyzing experts’ attitudes towards emigration policy regulation as the main factor for the children’s care, guardianship, and their rights protection, some negative aspects were revealed as well, i.e. social consequences of emigration – in most cases such children are left abandoned and do not form tight emotional relations with the rest of the family; they even might act antisocially, aggressively or rebel. The responsibility of parents who leave their child for someone to look after is also evaluated as pretty low by the experts, and education equality issue is not seen as even as for those children from the nuclear families. |
