THE PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON THE FORMATION OF RUSSIAN YOUTH'S FAMILY VALUES

Nowadays in Russia the importance of "family" and "quality of parenting" issues cannot be overestimated because it is based on a long trend of depopulation. This study implies the analysis of value orientations concerning family and children upbringing. The survey was conducted in the cities of the Ural region, Russia in 2013-2014. The results of a qualitative study of young people's views on the family and parenting are presented in this article. The analysis of essays identified three categories of respondents who gave typical descriptions of the parental family: "Gratitude description", "Neutral description" and "Problem description". An explicit interrelation between inherited social experience in the parental family and the image of the future family was noted. The results revealed the importance of the family for youth in modern Russia. We can assume that modern youth who were born in a turning point of Russian history has successfully adopted traditional family values and behavioral models. This creates conditions for demographic policy aimed not only at population growth but also at improving human capital quality.