Published: 2025-06-28

Aspects of separation in the process of achieving maturity treated as a value and a task

Monika Joanna Kornaszewska-Polak Logo ORCID

Abstract

The article addresses the important issue of young people separating in early adulthood from the values, norms and behavioral styles of the older generation. Separation processes can be treated as young people’s rebellion or contestation against socially accepted rules of conduct, as well as the Christian system of values. At the background of the young people’s separation are processes related to achieving maturity and independence. This maturity is currently perceived differently, and thus the ability to create lasting and stable bonds, such as marriage and family ties, is often an impossible task. The consequences of lack of personal maturity are assumed to be the breakdown of close relationships and a growing sense of loneliness among young people. As a result, we observe an increasing number of relationships such as cohabitation, but also decisions to live alone (being single). In the longer term, such choices can have serious implications for the dynamics of social life.

 

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Kornaszewska-Polak, M. J. (2025). Aspects of separation in the process of achieving maturity treated as a value and a task. Silesian Historical and Theological Studies, 57(2), 209–228. https://doi.org/10.31261/SSHT.2024.57.2.05

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Vol. 57 No. 2 (2024)
Published: 2025-06-28


ISSN: 0137-3447
eISSN: 2956-6185

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Instytut Gość Media/Księgarnia św. Jacka

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