Intra-family transmission of large family values

Abstract

The article reveals the specifics of transmitting the norms of large families from generation to generation. Based on empirical data, it was possible to assess the degree of influence of the experience of the parent families of survey participants and their spouses, as well as the actual number of children of respondents on the number of children they advise their children to have. An analysis of the structure of parental families showed that the majority of respondents’ families are hereditarily small, and every fourth refuses to continue the tradition of large families in their own reproductive family. A  comparative analysis of the desired and actual number of children in the families of respondents showed that the existing need for children is realized on average by only two-thirds. In connection with this, even full acceptance of the norm of children transmitted by parents will be insufficient to achieve the level of simple reproduction of the population. This justifies the need to implement targeted, scientifically based measures to support families with children, which reduce the influence of negative factors that prevent the birth of more children, and increase the importance of the opposite ones, which contribute to having a larger number of children.