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Croatian family policy: challenges of demographic ageing and pluralisation

The pluralisation of family forms is a common challenge in all European societies, including Croatia, although in a slightly smaller extent. Low fertility rate, postponement of family formation and increase of different family forms has thus become the main issue of Croatian family policy in the last 15 years. However, the issues of demographic ageing and family pluralization have to be tackled by complementary though different policy measures. The paper addresses the main changes in family life in Croatia and analyzes the family policy which is indeed in constant changes and under political pressures. After gaining its independence Croatia passed several demographic programs and tried only once to define its family policy. The main question is how family policy measures respond to the needs of contemporary Croatian family, what types of family are conceptualized as a base for different policy measures, and what are consequences of policy measures to different family forms. The question is therefore does family policy takes into an account pluralization as a main trend and how it reconciles needs for demographic growth with the real life of different families?

Croatia; family policy; family pluralisation; policy measures

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