Socio-legal aspects and ethics of parenthood in the Republic of Serbia

Abstract

Faced with the fact that natural increase in the Republic of Serbia is in continuous decline, fulfillment in the role of parents is undoubtedly of great importance, both for individuals who takes one of the most responsible roles during life, and for specific society and future generations. Parental law as a system of duties arising from it, form a wide range of social and legal determinants of the future of parents and are correlated with the rights of the child. In this paper, using the method of survey research of a sample of parents, we have presented the most important social conditions whose satisfaction is the norm for the child birth and child upbringing. As the natural increase has significant deviations according to the regions, individual activities at the level of the most endangered local self-government units are the only way for the society to invest in the development of offspring and timely preservation of parental rights, primarily caring for the child's personality. Child birth and parenthood are not only a private matter of an individual, but it is in the interest of society to conduct population policy in accordance with the needs of a particular society. In this way, the chain of human social reproduction is maintained, which is always subject to normative regulation (both legal and moral).