K charakteru koncepcie rodinnej politiky na Slovensku
On the Conception of Family Policy in Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: On the Conception of Family Policy in Slovakia. The article is a response to a critique of explicit family policy conception in Slovakia, formed around the defence of implicit family policy conception. Implicit family policy aims primarily at the protection of citizens (individual members of families) against the poverty through the complex system of social policies while the explicit one focuses exclusively on the strengthening of institutionalised family and concrete families fulfilling their family functions. The critique of Erika Kvapilová argues for "new" family policy, which enforces "the development of diversified forms of family coexistence". She fears that these "new" forms of family coexistence could be discriminated to the advantage of marital families. To prevent this discrimination, Kvapilová promotes the social policy aimed at individual family members instead of ''the conservative family policy". The article introduces the basis and main emphasis for the selection of basic principles and strategic aims of state family policy in Slovakia, effective since 1996. It also concentrates on the principles and aims of five identified areas of state intervention towards the families and their living conditions. Analysing the social-cultural changes in the family sphere, the author highlights two significant concluding points: 1. The review of many critical opinions about the processes of social and family change indicates that the living family values,actively participate at the creation of social system ana-ihe integration of society. Family policy is thus recognised as relevant value creating and sustaining agent. 2. The suitable conditions for the physical, psychical and social development and safe family environment of children are the main emphasis of state family policy. This is also a criterion for the creation of conditions for the secure perspective of children as well as for the informed freedom of choice for the adults, even between "the diversified forms of family life".

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