The Potential for Increasing Fertility and the Family Demographic Policy of Russia

In Russia, the type of family with few children has long been entrenched. Important factors in its formation are the prevalence of cohabitation and the high level of divorce and abortion among married women. Based on original research, new trends in marital and family behavior are shown, which can be viewed as a kind of challenges, for example, the formation of a subculture of conscious childlessness. Analyzing the prospects for increasing the birth rate in the country, the authors draw attention to factors such as the preservation of the importance of a legitimate marriage when deciding on the birth of children; the potential to increase the proportion of large families; and the formation of a model of active and inclusive parenting, which increases satisfaction with marriage and contributes to the prevention of divorce. This study made it possible to formulate a number of recommendations for improving family and demographic policy, taking into account the identified opinions of Russians.