Abstract
Given the demographic aging of the population, the theme of taking the family care of seniors becomes an even more important problem of the research in social sciences. In accordance with this, the target of the study to find the priciples of helping family members within the family.
The article is based on a sociological research, which inter alia studied the measure of the financial help granted, emotional support and support through taking care on non-self-sufficient family members between generations. In attempts to reveal principles of the inter-generational care, three theories are tested as follows: the reciprocal theory, the theory of obligation and the theory of attachment.
The author used an analysis of quantitative data from sociological survey. Four hundred and eleven persons who intensively took care of senior family members and 203 respondents having no experience with the family care were inquired.