Psiakidis Dimitrios P, Stefanov Rumen S, Dimitrov Ivo D
Department of Social Medicine and Health Management, Medical University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Folia Med (Plovdiv). 2005;47(3-4):78-83.
Among the European countries, Greece has exhibited a significant decline in its total fertility rate. Unlike Bulgaria, Greece conducts little in-depth research to study comprehensively the attitudes of newlywed couples toward family planning and reproductive behaviour.
The present study aimed at exploring the opinion of newly married Greek couples about the nature and functions of modern family and comparing them with those of Bulgarian couples.
We conducted two parallel cross-sectional studies gathering the primary data by individual questionnaire survey using established methods.
More than half of the respondents planned to have a child within two years after marriage. Most of the respondents think that the main purpose of having children in a family is to give meaning to a person's life. In both Greece and Bulgaria giving birth to a child in a family is believed to be the consequence of merely life-experience related and emotional prerequisites that arise from the deeply rooted traditional attitudes in these countries towards the value and role of family. The prevailing opinion is that children should be raised by the parents in their parents' home until they become three years of age. Greek women are more inclined than Bulgarian women to stay at home and raise their children even until they complete school and are ready to care for them after graduation and marriage.
在欧洲国家中，希腊的总生育率显著下降。与保加利亚不同，希腊很少进行深入研究以全面了解新婚夫妇对计划生育和生殖行为的态度。
本研究旨在探讨新婚希腊夫妇对现代家庭的性质和功能的看法，并将其与保加利亚夫妇的看法进行比较。
我们进行了两项平行的横断面研究，采用既定方法通过个人问卷调查收集原始数据。
超过一半的受访者计划在婚后两年内生育。大多数受访者认为家庭中生育孩子的主要目的是赋予人生意义。在希腊和保加利亚，人们都认为在家庭中生育孩子仅仅是与生活经历相关的结果，以及源于这些国家对家庭价值和角色根深蒂固的传统态度所产生的情感前提。普遍的观点是，孩子应该由父母在自己家中抚养到三岁。希腊女性比保加利亚女性更倾向于待在家中抚养孩子，甚至直到孩子完成学业并在毕业后结婚后仍准备照顾他们。
