Lietuvoje šeimos padėtis ir jos raidos kryptys šiandien yra sudėtingos. Dabartinės mūsų šalies ekonominės problemos, socialinė įtampa daugiausia kaupiasi, paliečia ir atsispindi šeimose, ypač daugiavaikėse, keisdamos jų gyvenimą, elgseną ir buitį. Šeimos susiduria su naujomis problemomis ir norėdamos prisitaikyti prie pokyčių, keičia gyvenimo būdą, persikeičia jų vertybinės orientacijos, ryškėja šeimos transformacijai procesai ir nauji šeimos modeliai. Tokiu būdu kyla tyrimo probleminis klausimas ar yra pakankamas valstybės ir visuomenės dėmesys daugiavaikių šeimų, problemų sprendimui. Tyrimo objektas – daugiavaikių šeimų socialinių, edukacinių problemų raiška. Tyrimo tikslas – atlikti daugiavaikių šeimų socialinių, edukacinių problemų analizę ir pateikti rekomendacijas socialines pagalbos teikimui. Darbe taikyti tyrimo metodai: mokslinės, psichologinės, teisinės ir kt. literatūros, norminių dokumentų, susijusių su magistro darbo tema, analitinis apibendrinimas. Pusiau standartinis interviu – kokybinis tyrimas, turinio (content) analizė. Iš anksto numačius pokalbio kontūrus ir klausimų ratą. Anketinė apklausa raštu buvo taikoma antrame tyrimo etape, pateikiant anketas ir siekiant pasitikslinti socialines problemas, su kuriomis susiduria daugiavaikės šeimos bei išsiaiškinti pagalbos joms galimybes. Matematinės statistikos metodai. Juos naudojant atliktas tyrimo duomenų įvertinimas. Duomenys apdoroti kompiuterinėmis programomis: Statistical Package for the... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The status of a family and its trends are complicated. Our countries current political problems, social tensions generally accumulates, touches and are most visible in the families, especially large families, changing their lifestyle, behavior. Families encounter new problems and wishing to adapt to changes, change their values, lifestyles and thus new family models and family transformations become evident. That way a problem question is formulated: is the states and communities attention to large family problem salving sufficient. The object of the research - large family social and educational problems. The goal of the research - to conduct an analysis of large family social and educational problems and provide recommendations for offering social care. The research methods employed in this work: literature from the fields of science, psychology, law etc., analytical generalization of those documents. Half Standard interview - quality and content analysis, with planned questions and outlines. In the second step of this work, the written survey was used. Survey included additional questions about the problems large families encounter and what help they need. Methods of mathematical statistics was used, along with survey, analyzing the research data. Data was processed with computer programs: Statistical Package for Sočiai Sciences; Kruscal, Wallis tests, Microsoft Excel.

The diploma thesis focuses on parenting styles and the sibling group of large families. The theoretical part describes the theoretical base of parenting styles, variables that can influence parenting styles and the specifics of large families. The qualitative approach in the empirical part was used. The study sample consists of nine Czech families with four or five children aged 1.5 to 18 years. Parents are mostly highly educated practicing Catholics. Data were gathered using qualitative and quantitative methods. The outcome of this research is a description of the specifics of family education in large families, possible causes for education differences among children in a family and the characteristics of a sibling group. Family size impacts communication among parents and children in the family, as well as the number of shared activities and the way the household is organized. Causes of differences in education among siblings can be found in the different personality characteristics, age, sibling constellation and the extent of parental experience. The significance of the sibling group is reflected in a compensation for lack of parental attention, an encouragement of younger siblings' development and a cultivation of social skills.

This diploma thesis wants to find out main needs of large families in the Czech Republic. Families with three and more children are minority group for which social and family policy don't have specific measures. These families face to many problems, especially to the lack of financial resources and complicated reconciling of work and care. Situation of families and adjustment of social and family policy in the Czech Republic are compared with large families in France and with French family policy which is aim at reconciling of work and care in last years. Although adjustment of French welfare state is different, the inspiration for Czech system will be defined. Major benefit of this thesis is focusing on large families in the Czech Republic which don't receive social benefits and at least one parent is economically active.