The article discusses the question of whether in European history it was possible to instill a love for the family tree, and the author understands both of these phenomena in a general way, stipulating the problematic nature of such an approach. Analyzing the formation of love in archaic culture, the concept of platonic love, the medieval concept of courtly love and the new European concepts of romantic love, the author comes to the conclusion that love could not be organically united with the family. He discusses the reasons for this, which have much to do with the discrepancy between the European individual and the family as a social institution. Accordingly, arguments from both psychology and sociology are used. In conclusion, the author’s “concept of creative love” is outlined.

This paper examines the ideas of some modern researchers about the influence of the experience gained in the parental family and family attitudes on the indicators of marital communication. During the regression analysis, it was revealed that the ease, trustfulness and psychotherapeutic nature of marital communication in women are influenced by attitudes such as “Attitude to people”, “Attitude to children”, “Sense of duty and pleasure” and “Autonomy/dependence”, as well as such styles of family emotional communication as “Over-involvement” and “External well-being”. In men, mutual understanding, trust and the formation of common family symbols with a partner are influenced by such attitudes as “Attitude to money”, “The importance of the sexual sphere”, “The prohibition of sexual topics”, orientation to duty compared to pleasure, as well as such a style of parental communication as “Elimination of emotions”.

The article reveals the State demographic and family policy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), provides regulatory legal acts of the Russian Federation and the Republic of S(Y) on family policy. The authors of the article examine the demographic and social and pedagogical features of the educational potential of the family. The works of researchers who have studied the national characteristics of the family culture of the peoples of the North-East of Russia are analyzed.

The article presents the activities of the consulting center of the Moscow psychologicsocial university, describes and analyzes the results of monitoring the provision of consulting services by specialists of the center to modern parents on issues of upbringing, education and development of children.

The article gives an idea of the genesis of the formation of the ideology and scientific foundations of the state family policy as an independent scientific branch in the 1990s. The author analyzes the stages of the formation of its current paradigm, the inertial factors that hindered its implementation. The author’s concept of family policy, methodological approaches to the development of its strategy, subject, principles, implementation mechanisms, and legal foundations are presented.

The article highlights the features of child-parent relations between adolescents and their parents; it is shown that the full picture of child-parent relations, their complexity and specificity can be understood only by comprehensively examining families, in particular separately fathers, mothers and their children; it is demonstrated that not only the attitude of parents to children, but also the attitude of children to parents it is no less significant and can have an impact on the nature of child-parent relations and, as a result, on the well-being of the child.

The presented materials reflect the results of an experimental approach to understanding the problem of responsible fatherhood among modern parents. Based on the results of the implementation of the method of theoretical analysis, and highlighting as the most important indicators of responsible fatherhood the possession of a man (father) with the information necessary to organize effective interaction with the child, awareness of himself as a parent, and, as a consequence, his desire to fully realize himself in this social role, describes the results of experimental testing of a program of psychological and pedagogical support for the process of forming responsible fatherhood as an integrative personal education

The purpose of the study is to develop theoretical and practical foundations for preparing a teacher for productive interaction with a substitute family in a difficult pedagogical situation. Data on the teacher’s readiness to work with a substitute family were obtained, areas of deficiency in vocational training were identified. It has been established that it is advisable to implement short-term full-time courses for teachers, within which the peculiarities of the life of the substitute family are studied, technologies for diagnosing the substitute family, organization and maintenance of psychological and pedagogical support of substitute families are mastered.

The article discusses the features of the family system’s response to the stressor of a complicated pregnancy. The results of a comparative study of two groups of families are presented: with a normatively proceeding pregnancy and with a complicated pregnancy. The parameters of the family system were studied: satisfaction with marriage, family cohesion, authority of the spouse, consent in a couple, emotional attraction, understanding, etc. The parameters of marital relations that are most at risk in the situation of pregnancy complications have been identified.

The article presents the activities of the Consulting Center of the Moscow Psychologicsocial university, analyzes the results of monitoring the provision of consulting services by the center’s specialists to the parental community on development, education and upbringing of children.

The article analyzes the significance of the heritage potential of scientists who defined pedagogical thinking in the XX century, as well as their views on the development of priority areas of pedagogy, in general, and the problems caused by issues and various aspects of child rearing, in particular; compares systems, forms and methods of child rearing, classifications of age periods, as well as physiological and psychological changes occurring in children at various stages of their growing up; based on the conducted historical and pedagogical research, conclusions are drawn about the relevance and feasibility of the scientific potential of pedagogical heritage in modern conditions of the development of pedagogical science and society as a whole.

The article is devoted to an urgent problem of modern society — the destructive behavior of adolescents. Destructive behavior is understood as behavior formed under the influence of the social, family and cultural environment, aimed at destroying material things, accepted norms and rules, as well as harming oneself and others. The article presents the results of a study of the influence of the characteristics of the family environment on the formation of a tendency to destructive behavior in adolescents. It is determined that the formation of a tendency to destructive behavior is influenced by the following parameters of the microsocial en vironment – the dominance and directivity of the mother, hostility and indifference of the father, disinterest in the life of the child, low level of family cohesion, frequent family conflicts.

The article examines the principle of social responsibility in the context of the position of an educational institution in relation to the problem of family conflicts. Starting from the position of D. A. Novikov on the general principles of the effective management of educational systems, the analysis of the principle of formation of social responsibility is made. The presentation of the problem is given in the context of a comparative analysis of the goals of the Central state programs for the development of education on 2013–2020 and 2018–2025 years.

The article reveals the specific features of the modern Russian family, focuses on the insufficient pedagogical competence of many parents and the need to provide them with targeted psychological and pedagogical counseling. On the example of the activity of the Consulting Center of the Moscow Psychological and Social University, the main directions of effective assistance to parents in matters of upbringing and education of children are described.

The article reveals the theoretical issues related to the identification of the valuesemantic foundations of the education of modern youth, a comparative analysis of normative legal documents regulating educational activities in institutions of general and higher education is carried out. The authors focus on the specifics of the work of teaching staff aimed at the formation of value orientations of the younger generation.

A variety of modern studies indicate the impact of parental divorce on various aspects of a child’s personality development. At the same time, we are talking mainly about children who find themselves in an urgent situation of parental divorce. The time-removed consequences of experiencing such a situation and their impact on marital well-being for grown-up children have not been sufficiently studied, which indicates the relevance of the stated issues. The presented research is aimed at studying the features of interpersonal relationships and family attitudes of spouses who experienced the disintegration of an integral parental family in childhood. In the course of this work, it was revealed that painful memories of parental divorce contribute to the formation of selfish and aggressive types of interpersonal interaction in close relationships, lead to dysfunctional marital attitudes.