НЕПОЛНЫЕ СЕМЬИ В РЕГИОНАХ РОССИИ: МАСШТАБЫ И СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКИ

Abstract

The subject of the study is single-parent family as one of the main types of modern Russian family. The purpose of the paper is to study, based on monitoring and analysis of regional data, social profiles of low-income single-parent families in Russia. The research methods are systematic and comparative approaches, structural analysis and synthesis, statistical processing of information, induction and deduction, abstraction, and specification, etc. The following scientific and practical research results were obtained: a significant similarity was revealed in the social profiles of low-income single-parent families and single-parent families at risk of poverty; the main causes of poverty in incomplete families are identified, the main ones being the unemployment of a single parent and the insufficient level of wages of working mothers. The results of the analysis of the modal characteristics of singleparent families with low income can be used by federal executive authorities and executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation when updating measures to reduce poverty in the field of promoting the employment of single parents.