Contemporary youth family values

The problem of value orientations of the younger generation, including family values, attracts considerable attention of researchers, since they form the core of values of young people, occupying leading positions in the structure of basic value orientations. A certain type of relationship and upbringing is built within the family circle where traditions and life experience are passed on. The study of family values of young people seems to be an urgent task in the context of ongoing socio-economic and political changes in Russian society and the transformation of family values of contemporary youth. The article, on basis of the results of the author's sociological research (2018–2019, 2020, 2020, 2023), reveals the dynamics of basic family values among the youth of Russian regions and considers family traditions, attitudes to marriage, the birth of children and the motives for creating a family. The research materials indicate the importance of the family in the structure of the basic values of young respondents. Despite the fears of a crisis of marriage and family, expressed in the absence of the need for offi cial registration of relations, postponement of the appearance of the fi rstborn, changing the traditions of the family from basic to modern ones, the respondents still demonstrate a desire to formalize the relationship in future and aim having the fi rstborn. At the same time, young respondents are primarily looking for emotional connection, comfort, support and love in their future life partner. Young people plan to achieve fi nancial stability and be confi dent in the future before becoming parents. The current socio-economic state of Russian society needs to preserve the institution of family and marriage with traditional family values.

values, value orientations, family, marriage, reproductive attitudes, youth, students