Анализ правовых и социально-психологических аспектов феномена «чайлдфри»

Abstract

The article is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the psychological foundations of «conscious childlessness» as a complex socio-psychological phenomenon, as well as the formation of a psychologically and legally justified attitude to it. The subject of the scientific research was the psychology of the phenomenology of «childfree», its purpose was to study the legal and socio–psychological aspects of «conscious childlessness». The research methodology was based on axiological, phenomenological, humanistic, genetic and activity approaches in psychology, the provisions of gender psychology, family psychology and deviantology. Both general philosophical research methods (abstraction, deduction, induction) and a private scientific method – content analysis of domestic and foreign sources on the Childfree problem were used. 20 diverse publications were analyzed, primarily in the field of deviantology, family psychology, social psychology and engineering, regulatory legal acts.
 As a result of the study, the corresponding genesis and multifactorial determination of the ideology of «conscious childlessness» are shown. Potentiating the emergence of childfree tendencies in society were social attitudes, the development of feminist movements, the leveling of biological instincts of generosity, the spread of psychotechnologies of social engineering, the change in the technological way of life of society. A special role in the existence of «childfree» as a phenomenon is assigned to economic goal-setting. The negative consequences of «conscious childlessness» for society are given. Since the conscious philosophy of childlessness aggravates the demographic situation in the state, the objective necessity of solving this problem at the level of the state and society, as well as in practical psychology, is justified. The novelty of the scientific research is that it shows an atypical path for social development and a socially dangerous (dead-end) path of childbirth – conscious childlessness. The material of the article is aimed at strengthening the institution of family and marriage, as well as psychological prevention of the occurrence and existence of the phenomenon of childfree in Russia.