Growing up in modern world is under the influence of different social, technological, political, economic and cultural changes. Such changes reflect differently on family, especially on children and childhood. Old games and... [ view full abstract ]
Growing up in modern world is under the influence of different social, technological, political, economic and cultural changes. Such changes reflect differently on family, especially on children and childhood. Old games and toys are replaced with new ones. Relations between children, and between children and adults are getting a new, changed meaning. Trends of accelerated growing up, and complete disappearance of childhood, as well as childhood commercialization in the form of manipulation of global market and economy related to children and children life, are more present.
In first part of work, important things related with changes which afflicted modern society, family and children are explained and presented theoretically. New views on children and childhood, new relations, technological development and increasingly involvement of media, especially electronic media, are spoken of. In the second part, focus is on survey of modern life of parents and preschool children (N=300). From the results follows that still dominates families with married parents and their children (79.9%), and part of the families (20%) is living in the same household with grandparents. The average maternal age at first child birth is 28, and there is even 55.2% of families with only one child. It is interesting that children spent equal amount of time in outdoor activities and in the use of media. Finally, there is a lot of changes in the modern lives of parents and children. It is assumed that there will be even more changes in the future.
Key worlds: modern world, acceleration and disappearance of childhood, consumering childhood, media influence
