Family Policy as an Integral Component of State Social Policy: Contemporary Challenges and Responses Through Innovation

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AbstractThe paper studies family policy as a multicomponent category, one of the multi-structural social policy components. In the context of transformation processes affecting all areas of human activity, many countries focus on the issues of preservation and protection of the family as the primary unit of society, as well as the issues of ensuring the safe and full functioning of the family for the successful performance of its basic functions. The analysis of the constitutional provisions of the Kyrgyz Republic after the last constitutional reform revealed the expansion of social norms, including the country’s family policy constitutionalized as a social state. Based on the use of systemic, comparative-legal, and statistical methods, the authors identified certain gaps and shortcomings of national legislation in the field of protection and defense of the family and developed recommendations for its improvement through regulatory and legal innovations. The results can be used in law-making activities in the field of protection and defense of the family, the development and implementation of national family policy, and conducting further research on the institution of family policy.KeywordsFamilyFamily policySocial policyConstitutionConstitutional rules and regulationsFamily-legal relationsStateSocietyMarriageChildrenMothersParentsPrinciples of family policyFamily policy guidelinesInnovationJEL ClassificationD10H53K36I38O31O35O38