The problem of female identity deformation in modern Russian society
The article attempts to identify the risks of deformation of women's identity by studying the patterns of structural changes and features of the mechanisms of transformation of women's identity characterized by the formation of different types of impaired reproductive behavior in modern Russian society. The authors emphasize that in the situation of deformation of women's identity under the influence of external, socio-economic factors (social trends in marital culture, family structure, financial opportunities, professional activities, relationships with the spouse) and internal, individual personal (values, the immaturity, the low level of self-reflection, the presence of a traumatic life situation) formed maladaptive reproductive attitudes that determine a woman's unwillingness to motherhood and form certain strategies of abandonment of the maternal role. The causes of failures are associated not only with real difficulties, but also with the sense of its insolvency, inability to meet life's challenges in implementation the role of the mother, leading to the formation of the dysfunctional reproductive behavior. The article analyzes the causes and factors of formation in modern Russian society of such unconscious strategies of abandonment of the maternal role as habitual miscarriage, infertility of unknown origin and conscious strategies: commitment to сhildfree, abortion, conscious abandonment of the child in the hospital.