DESCRIPTION: Prof. Dr. François Höpflinger, born in 1948, studied sociology and social psychology at the University of Zurich. Since 1994, he has been a full professor of sociology at the University of Zurich. Winner of the Erich Walser Generation Prize 2023. Höpflinger focuses on analyzing social changes related to population aging, including: he studies the dynamics between grandparents and grandchildren and the impact of aging on generational solidarity and the living conditions of older people. He is the creator and main person responsible for the Age Report series, which covers topics such as housing and the well-being of seniors in Switzerland. The text of the article is a transcript of a lecture given at the Faculty of Christian Philosophy of the ATK on May 8, 1989. The translation was done by Mieczysław Bombik. The article in question concerns the issue of factors influencing decisions to have children in an axiological context. The author analyzes the results of studies conducted in Western European countries and discusses them. "In general, it turns out that for every decision to have a child, there are other factors that are motivational for it. This state of affairs argues for a ‘multiphase model’ of family formation, a model that assumes that each decision to have a child must be considered separately. It is also widely apparent that for a growing number of children, situational factors—such as previous experience or current life circumstances—are becoming more important than the generally accepted value system. (...) different demographic models become relative, some overemphasize the desire to have children, others do not take it sufficiently into account, so that the decision to have a first child is subject to completely different ‘regularities’ than the decision to have a second or third child" (p. 147).
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