Homoseksualių asmenų požiūriai į šeimą Lietuvoje

• Main Author: Ignatavičiūtė, Sandra
• Other Authors: Telešienė, Audronė
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: Lithuanian; English
• Published: Institutional Repository of Kaunas University of Technology 2021
• Subjects: homosexual families; discrimination; family transformations; socialization; Canada; Norway; Argentina; Uruguay; Iceland
• Online Access: http://ktu.oai.elaba.lt/documents/8827029.pdf; http://ktu.lvb.lt/KTU:ELABAETD8827029&prefLang=en_US

The primary socialization begins within a family where we learn behavioural norms and wisdom of life. Later on, we try to build our own family pattern which is unique, individual, and acceptable only to us. As time passes, family and society patterns, likewise the perceptions of them, keep changing, so it is necessary to examine the existing and emerging new family modes. A family of sexual minorities, little examined though, can be classified as a new and non-traditional family model. Homosexuals constantly experience social exclusion based on the grounds of sexual orientation, hence, they face discrimination (Platovas, Jankauskaitė, Tereškinas, 2003, p. 5). This problem is so prevalent in our society that most lesbians and gays have experienced discrimination or prejudice against them at least once a time. It is displayed by homophobic expressions and press publications which form public opinion. Society hardly accepts this new phenomenon – that is homosexual families. Same-sex \"marriage\" is legalized in sixteen countries around the world: in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Iceland, Argentina, Denmark, France, Brasil, Uruguay, New Zeland and the Great Britain. Currently, Lithuania has is not yet legalized partnership that would create legal guarantees for the sexual minority group. In order to implement equal rights in reducing discrimination in our society, this problem should be widely analyzed. It is these arguments that explain why this issue is so relevant. The semi-structured interview was selected to investigate these cases. The objective of the work is to analyze the attitudes of homosexuals’ towards family in Lithuania. The following tasks were set in the research: to analyze sociologically the concept of family; to explore the main family transformations in Lithuania, to analize the situation of homosexuals in Lithuania and to analyze the attitudes of homosexuals towards family. The research has revealed that homosexual people perceive family as a virtue. They have identified family as an aspiration to build long-term relationships. There also has been disclosed the main reasons that homosexual families would like to acquire, namely, social and legal guarantees which would be endowed after the legalization of the partnership