Abstract
The pattern of status homogamy in a society shape implications of social standing of the family for next generations. Studies of homogamy typically focus on newlywed or prevailing marriages in the population.
For the assesment of the consequences for next generation is, however, more important how homogamous are the couples when they have and bring up children. No study has adresses this question with data from the Czech Republic, so far.
The goal of the paper is to asses how educationally homogamous were married parents of newborns in 1990, 1998 and 2007. Analysis of birth register data showed that the tendency to have children in a homogamous marital union grew for couples with lower education and, suprisingly, declined for parents with higher education.