Katolicka moralność małżeńsko-rodzinna w ocenie młodzieży szkolnej

Abstract

The author analyses several issues related to the broadly understood human sexuality perceived in the perspective of pro-family values and norms of Catholic provenance. In sociological research, the results of which are discussed in this article, high school students responded to selected attitudes and behaviours negatively evaluated in Catholic marital and family ethics, such as: sexual intercourse before church marriage, use of contraceptives, marital infidelity, divorce, and abortion. The changes taking place in the sphere of intimacy are clear. A significant part of young Poles is in a dissonant-stressful situation. There is no correspondence between a personally recognised and practiced value system and a value system derived from religion. Some Catholics live according to rules and norms that have no legitimacy in the Catholic religion. However, it should be emphasized that sociologists with an empirical orientation are more interested in questioning and transgressing moral norms than in their content or social recognition, and they speak too hastily about permissiveness and moral relativism.