Paradoxes and contradictions of family relations in a transforming society

Abstract

The trends taking place in modern society under the slogans of democratization affect all social institutions. They do not bypass the institution of family and marriage. Moral values, the foundations of the harmonious development of personality, relationships in society, forms of interaction, awareness of the role of a person in society are laid in the family. However, the rapid processes of transformation at the international level, the impact of globalization on all spheres of society, significant changes in socio-political and socio-economic spheres, modernization in the likeness of the Western model make adjustments to ideological attitudes regarding family relations from the standpoint of historical culture with value-functional significance. The social role of the family has changed in the minds of people, especially the younger generation. Family values are becoming less and less important in the context of social development. As a structural unit of society, the family undergoes significant, sometimes paradoxical changes. The article considers the main contradictory forms of family relations and highlights their characteristics from the position of influence on social development.