Abstract
The concept of “family mentoring” has two meanings: as a set of formal and informal social practices of family support and as part of the family culture for the transfer of experience, knowledge, behavior patterns and values. The article is based on, firstly, field research aimed at understanding mentoring by urban residents of different ages, education and professions, and secondly, on information materials about the activities of state and public organizations to provide support to families in need not only of social protection, but and in cultural development. The ambiguity of the concept of “family mentoring” is overcome due to the common meaning rooted in the culture of native speakers. The author comes to the conclusion that it is more correct to consider mentoring not as a set of practices, but as the quality of the relationship between the “mentoring” and “mentee” parties during the transfer of experience, norms, values, knowledge. The parties are able to change places, although the family, in relation to social institutions, acts more as the one who is guided and supported. Informants, regardless of their age, education and specialty, as a rule, place parents in first place among mentors in their lives. Mentoring in the family exists insofar as the family is based on trust and mutual assistance.
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