Social and psychological characteristics of modern maternity: retrospective analysis
The article proves that the core reasons for family and maternity crisis are decrease in value significance of maternity in modern society, emancipation and change of women's role in a family, spreading of common-law marriage forms, popularization of “Childfree” movement and hedonistic ideas in the youth subculture, generalization of quasi-planned family model. The study shows decrease in reproductive orientations, contradictory nature of matrimonial orientations, low prestige of maternity, acceptance of the “new” family forms (“common-law marriage”, “guest marriage”, etc.), etc.; rationalization of deviant maternity in the young women. Applied aspect of the problem under study can be put to practice when developing the programs aimed at preventing deviant maternity in modern society.