Slovenian farm family is facing transformation. It is still traditional in some respects, but it also gains some modern characteristic as well as post-modern. Also the structure of farm household is changing; it is mostly gathered around by nuclear family core. Anyway farm family still preserves intergenerational solidarity. Older generation helps younger mostly by babysitting. Nowadays farm households have much less children, but the fertility level is high enough to preserve the farm population. Younger generation is still prepared to take care of the older, but at the same time they want to keep their privacy. Passing the farm to a younger generation is unreliable, and the time when a successor takes over the farm is often not defined.
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