The article starts with a review about the current public debate on the crisis of family. In the author's perspective this debate is motivated less by the hard facts about the situation of family in the current western societies - although there are many changes - but rather it indicates a changing correlation between a "private" and a "public" concept of family. Up to the 1970ties family was understood as an area of privacy, but the frameset of this area was defined by the public sphere only - mainly by the state and the church. Their representatives assigned a certain form of private life to individual people. But the advantages of emancipation caused especially young women to decline this structure. They want to design their own conception of family, based on die compatibility of job and motherhood. This formation is described as "crisis of family" by the detractors of modernity. In contrast, it is the author's position to take this developments as a chance - especially in a protestant perspective. At the end the article stitches the basic framework of such a concept of family.

Enthalten in:
Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik; 2007/4 Kommentare, Studien, Berichte, Dokumentationen, Diskussionen, Rezensionen, Bibliographie (2007)

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Serie / Reihe: Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik

Personen: Anselm, Reiner

Schlagwörter: Familie Krise Leitbild Öffentlichkeit Individualität Evangelische Ethik