Marriage and Family Values of the Population of the EAEU Countries: A Comparative Analysis

The article is devoted to the analysis of the results of an empirical study of family values of citizens of the Eurasian Economic Union. The novelty of the study lies in the study of value orientations in the territory that is currently connected by economic relations. The relevance of this topic is also related to the fact that the EAEU is a young, actively developing union. Over the past three decades, a new generation of people of reproductive age has grown up in the countries of the Union, whose family attitudes require comparative study. Thus, because of migration processes in the Eurasian space, interethnic marriages occur, which can be complicated by differences in the family ideals of the spouses. The study of these attitudes will increase the level of mutual understanding regarding family building both at the level of management for implementing measures to support families, and among ordinary citizens who are planning a family. The study describes the population’s perceptions of various aspects of family life. Also, countries were divided into groups based on the similarity of family attitudes and placed on the scale in a sequence from more traditional to secular family attitudes. The results obtained can be used to develop measures to support families, youth, and demographic policies of the governments of the EAEU countries, as they allow us to assess the orientation of the population of reproductive age in the framework of family planning. The presented results provide an understanding of the place of the family in the system of values of the population of each EAEU member state. These conclusions will be useful for scientists of the Eurasian Economic Union countries involved in the sociology of the family, the sociology of morals, and demography.