Једнородитељске породице: друштвена пракса и свакодневица током друге половине двадесетог века
Single Parent Families: Social Practice and Daily Life in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century

Summary/Abstract: Families that consist of one parent instead of two are called single parent families. Terminology dealing with and denoting these family forms has changed in time but has almost always up to the 70s of the 20th century, when the term single parent family was accepted, had a negative connotation and was connected with a certain social risk. The legal standing of children born to married or not married couples, relationship of parents and children, paternity establishing procedure and so on were all subject to legal regulations of different legal power since the time of the early socialist state. The quantitative index given in this paper shows an increase of nonmarital births rates in the total number of live births. Social practice and attitude taken towards single parent families in daily life depended on the reasons why such families were formed. A whole series of circumstances opposed the proclaimed ideology of gender equality and reflected the deeply rooted social values.

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