Family in the Face of Globalization
Family in the Face of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: The effects of the impact of globalization on the family were presented in this article. Globalization of culture and globalization of consumption became the main causes of changes in the value system. So-called uniformity (unification) of life and its homogenization were a result of global transformation. Relations with people and objects take on a new, transitional character. Mankind seeks to achieve happiness and joy, but the boundaries between good and evil, truth and falsehood, values and anti-values are blurred. The fast pace of changes contributes, on the one hand, to a multiplicity of choices but, on the other hand, to the formation of transience, temporality, and changeability. Since the 1960s there have been new, alternative forms of family life. The 1990s brought the fashion for “invisible women” manifested in blurring gender difference. In the first decade of the twenty-first century some legal changes concerning same sex partnerships were made common and in some countries such partnerships were regarded as equivalent to marriage, thus weakening understanding of the traditional definition of the family.

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