STATE POLICY OF SUPPORT OF LARGE FAMILIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE AND RUSSIA

Changes in the reproductive behavior of the European population, the transition to small families has an impact on the demographic structure and the quality of human capital. The purpose of the article is to study the general and particular in the state policy to support large families in Europe and Russia. Social and family policy, demographic policy is reviewed from the point of view of different approaches: economic approach, gender theory, inequality theory, stratification, with the distinguished continental, liberal, southern European, Scandinavian models of social policy. The research methods were the analysis of regulatory documents and analysis for organizing a of social support for large families in nation states are considered. The conclusions about the relative effectiveness of state policy with respect to large families are made. Measures of state support for large families in Europe are not united and universal. Among the most developed and effectively applied are measures of support in the Baltic Sea countries, as well as in France. In the rest of the EU, state support measures for large families are non-systemic, as well as in Russia.