Katarzyna Sierakowska
History Notebooks, Issue 151 (2), Ahead of print (2024)
Katarzyna Sierakowska
History Notebooks, Issue 147 (4), 2020, pp. 823 - 837
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.20.046.12500The text focuses on select issues related to the transformation of the family in the first half of the twentieth century, such as: changes regarding marital choices and relationships between spouses, changes in the scope of parental roles and the processes of individualization and individual autonomy in the family. It tries to answer the questions about the dynamics of these processes in different social milieus and to indicate factors that accelerated and delayed them. The analysis of the sources and literature concerning family lives does not allow for an unambiguous assessment of the rapidity and range of changes taking place in families. Nevertheless, it exposes the diversity of models existing in family life and shows that it depends on such elements as social environment, gender, idiosyncratic features of the individual, to the same extent as it does on the rate of change.