Cost: free
Number of questions: 48
Result: immediately after completing the test
Number of participants: 1 person
Test format: free individual test
A family may begin with love, but the birth of a child creates obligations that continue regardless of feelings, living arrangements or the duration of the relationship.
Who will take care of the child every day? Who will reduce their working hours? How will expenses be divided? What will happen to the child, finances, housing and parental responsibilities if the relationship ends?
This free test helps determine how ready a person is to discuss these issues in advance and accept specific responsibilities towards a future child.
Answer 48 questions to determine which elements of a contractual family you are already prepared to accept and which responsibilities you are still leaving undefined.
What the free test assesses
The free test “Assessment of readiness for a contractual family and parental responsibility” does not measure the strength of love or whether a person conforms to traditional ideas about family.
It shows how ready a person is to define in advance:
- the division of daily childcare responsibilities;
- the financial obligations of each parent;
- the consequences of temporarily giving up or reducing a career;
- compensation for lost income and pension savings;
- the procedure for making decisions about the child’s health and education;
- the child’s place of residence;
- the conditions for international relocation;
- the parents’ obligations after the relationship ends.
The test helps reveal the difference between general agreement with the ideas of love, equality and responsibility and an actual willingness to fulfil specific long-term obligations.
Six areas of family responsibility
The result is based on six areas.
Contractual certainty
This area shows a person’s readiness to discuss the structure of the family before the birth of a child, record mutual obligations and establish in advance how the terms will be reviewed.
A person may support the idea of an agreement while avoiding discussion of specific amounts, time periods, responsibilities and the consequences of separation. The test helps reveal this contradiction.
The child as a primary Person
This area shows whether a person is able to distinguish the child’s interests from the rights, wishes and conflicts of adults.
A child is not the property of either parent. The child must not become a means of pressure, a way of obtaining money or an instrument of revenge after separation.
Division of care
This area assesses a person’s attitude towards the daily work involved in raising a child.
Care includes not only time spent with the child, but also illness, education, medical decisions, documents, organising daily routines, emotional support and a constant readiness to change one’s own plans.
Financial responsibility
This area shows a person’s readiness to recognise the full economic cost of parenthood.
The birth of a child creates more than current expenses. One parent may lose part of their income, career opportunities, professional experience, pension savings and economic independence.
Responsibility after separation
This area assesses whether a person is capable of maintaining their parental obligations after the personal relationship ends.
Parents may cease to be a couple, but they cannot cease to be parties to an obligation towards their child.
Equality of family roles
This area shows whether a person is prepared to divide responsibilities according to ability, available time and accepted obligations rather than automatically according to the participants’ sex.
The mother may take care of the child. The father may take care of the child. The parents may divide the responsibilities or choose another arrangement. What matters is not the person’s sex, but the obligation they have accepted and actually fulfil.
Why agreements should be made before the birth of a child
Once a child is born, the main consequences of the decision have already occurred.
Expenses, employment, housing, daily routines and the parents’ professional opportunities change. If the rules are only established after a conflict begins, each adult will attempt to protect the position that has already developed.
A parental responsibility agreement is not a contract concerning ownership of a child. A child cannot be the subject of a transaction.
It is an agreement between adults about the obligations they accept towards a future child and how those obligations will be fulfilled if income, health, place of residence or personal relationships change.
A possible model for such a family is examined in detail in the MediaIEU article “The Family in 2050: The Contractual Family Will Help Increase Birth Rates in Europe”.
Traditional and contractual families
The test does not determine which form of family is morally correct.
Traditional and contractual models can exist in parallel:
- a traditional family may be based on religion, cultural norms and predetermined roles;
- a contractual family may be based on an individual agreement, equality and legally defined responsibility.
A religious marriage may also be accompanied by a civil agreement covering property, finances and parental responsibility.
The test assesses not the name of the family model, but a person’s readiness to understand and fulfil the obligations associated with it.
What the result shows
After the test is completed, the result appears immediately on the same page.
It shows:
- the overall level of readiness for family obligations;
- the two most strongly expressed areas;
- the strengths of the chosen position;
- possible contradictions and risks;
- the issues that should be defined before the birth of a child;
- the relationship between Behaviour, Choice, Demand and Money.
The result does not determine whether a person will become a good parent. It shows which obligations the person is ready to accept and which decisions they continue to leave to their partner, tradition, circumstances or a future conflict.
When the result may be inconclusive
If answers were selected randomly, too quickly or contain a large number of internal contradictions, the test may be unable to identify a stable profile.
This does not mean that the person is incapable of creating a family or becoming a parent.
Such a result indicates that their views on the division of care, money, rights and obligations do not yet form a consistent family system.
When taking the test again, the person should choose not the socially approved answer, but the decision they would actually make in the situation described.
Who the test is intended for
The test is intended for a person who:
- is considering starting a family;
- is planning to have a child;
- is discussing the division of responsibilities with a partner;
- is concerned about the unpredictable consequences of separation;
- is comparing traditional and contractual family models;
- considers parental equality important;
- is trying to assess their own readiness for long-term responsibility.
The test is completed by one person. The result reflects only that person’s pattern of answers and does not determine their partner’s position.
What the free test is not
The free test is not a medical, psychological, legal, religious or government assessment.
It:
- does not establish parental rights;
- does not determine the child’s place of residence;
- does not calculate child maintenance;
- does not replace a prenuptial or marriage agreement;
- does not create a parental responsibility agreement;
- does not confirm a couple’s compatibility;
- does not guarantee that the relationship will continue;
- does not replace advice from a lawyer or another specialist.
Family law, child maintenance, the establishment of parenthood, adoption, surrogacy and international relocation are governed by the legislation of the relevant country.
How to use the result
Compare the two leading areas with the area that received the lowest score.
The difference between them often reveals a potential cause of future conflict.
A person may support equality but be unwilling to compensate their partner for lost career opportunities. They may place the child’s interests first while allowing one parent to relocate the child to another country unilaterally. They may support a contractual system while refusing to discuss the consequences of separation.
The result helps identify such contradictions before starting a family or having a child.
Conclusion
The family of the future will not necessarily become exclusively contractual. Society may develop a new system before 2050, much later, or choose a different direction.
The main criterion will be the result: the stability of relationships, people’s readiness to become parents, the safety of the child and the ability of adults to fulfil the obligations they have accepted.
Love may end. Responsibility for the consequences of a joint decision to have a child cannot.
Conditions for taking the free test
The test “Assessment of readiness for a contractual family and parental responsibility” is a free individual test for private individuals.
The test contains 48 questions.
The result is generated automatically and displayed on the same page immediately after the test is completed.
Registration and an email address are not required.
Before starting the test, the user must complete the Cloudflare Turnstile verification.
For a more accurate result, each question should be read carefully and the answer should reflect the person’s actual behaviour rather than their preferred image of themselves.
Taking the test again starts from the first question. Once the result has been generated, it is not possible to return to previous answers.
General testing terms
These conditions apply to the free test “Assessment of readiness for a contractual family and parental responsibility” and define its format, number of questions, completion procedure and method of receiving the result.
The general MediaIEU testing terms concerning completion of the test, processing of answers, use of the result, personal data, copyright and technical matters also apply. They are provided below on this page.

