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Discussion

The authors argue that global migration is contextual dimension that affected personal networks, intergenerational relationships and intimate lives of Lithuanians born from 1980 to 2000. The analysis of the data from the two representative surveys (2013; 2018), a quota survey (2018) and biographical research study (2022) carried out in Lithuania as part of the research projects funded by the Research Council of Lithuania enabled the authors to uncover personal networks of young people (Milardo and Wellman, 1992) that include ‘significant persons’. Solidarity within and across generations was analysed by invoking the intergenerational solidarity perspective (Bengtson, 2001; Silverstein et al., 1997) and by shifting the focus to relations with close kin (Nauck and Becker, 2013). By exploring the attitudes towards the family size, intentions to have/not have children as well as the ways of doing families and intimate relationships the authors examine which way expectations of familial relationships are involved into the young people’s ‘do-it-yourself’ biographies (Beck-Gernsheim, 2002).