PRIRODNI PRIRAŠTAJ KAO POKAZATELJ BRAČNOGA MORALA U KATOLIČKIM OBITELJIMA U BOSNI I HERCEGOVINI (1996.-2007.)
THE NATURAL POPULATION GROWTH AS AN INDICATOR OF MARRIAGE MORALITY IN CATHOLIC FAMILIES OF BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

Summary/Abstract: It seems right to conclude that there are three basic causes of demographic stagnation in the Croatian population of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BH). The first one is the unattained return of exiled and displaced families, which has produced disastrous consequences, especially in the Posavina region of Sarajevo Archdiocese and on the territory of Banja Luka Diocese. Second, since 2002 the negative natural population growth among Catholics who have remained in BH has continuously diminished. This phenomenon adds to the progressive aging of the Catholic population and the diminishing of the total number of Catholics present in the country. Third, there has been a continuing emigration of Croats, caused primarily by economic reasons but also by insufficient security and endangerment of their ethnic rights. These phenomena strike the Catholics in the whole territory of BH, somewhere more and somewhere less, and they can be visualized through regular Church statistical data. But all this is an integral part of the common proceedings which are also affecting other ethnic and faith communities, although not in the same proportion. We should consider these phenomena in a much broader context.

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