Children's Rights and Grandparents in the Transmission of Values (in Changing Social, Economic, Labour, and Living Environments)

This article focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the process of value transmission from grandparents to grandchildren and the structure and function of their communication in support and assistance relationships. The research findings present different perspectives and demonstrate how the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren is co-constructed. Unique in its approach, it explores those involved in the transmission of values and provides both the scientific and applied audience with an understanding of social support as a communication process based on continuous relationships between grandparents and grandchildren. We examined the values summarized from the Musek Value Scale that are passed down through generations or are essential for grandparents to transmit to their grandchildren. Thus, we discovered a relatively unexplored area of value transfer in Slovenian society. The study was conducted on a population of 405 grandparents aged between 65 and 75 years who had already experienced transmitting values to their grandchildren.