Attitudes of Portuguese young people on family and marriage - critical remarks

Abstract

The actuality and novelty of the IED's Inquiry into the Values and Attitudes of Young People within the Portuguese scientific panorama and the very rich data bank formed thorough it justify, by themselves, the attention and interest of those studying the «juvenile condition». The reflection on the information in it and the analysis of the limitations (theoretical and methodological) which shape it point to new work hypotheses and hints, as it is quite normal in research works. This article is a written version of an oral comment at the IED's seminar on the «Communication in Family and Life Projects: the Search of Young Peoplefor Personal and Social Identity». Here one discusses some «global results» that characterize, according to the IED's inquiry, the «average young» in his or her attitudes, more or less positive, concerning family or the «conjugal relationship» as an institution.