Author
Bekh Kateryna
a Ph.D. in History, a research fellow at the Ukrainian Ethnological Center Department of M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine).
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6779-623X
Modern Ukrainian Family in the Conditions of War
Abstract
The submitted article is based on the collected expeditionary materials. The peculiarities of the creation, existence and life of the modern Ukrainian family in the conditions of wartime events are described. Field material has been recorded from the respondents from various regions of Ukraine (Zhytomyr, Cherkasy, Chernihiv oblasts) and with original life stories. The statistical data from official sources is used in the published work. The algorithms of updated legal acts in the field of family relations regulation are submitted. Modern Ukrainian family is considered as a component of the socio-cultural system, the existence, functioning and development of which affect mainly the prospect of nation-building.
A number of important themes is raised in the article. These are the issue of the formation and transformation of family values, those today depend primarily on the threats to the life and health of family members; modern formats of marriage, provided by the state-legal mechanism; motivations in making decisions about starting a family, namely maintaining responsibility for one’s loved ones; the development of the emotional and psychological background and the need for mutual communication of all family members during long separations and critical situations. In particular, attention is paid to the importance of the existence of a full-fledged family for the upbringing of children, especially in times of crisis and danger. The study is also focused on the transformation of family roles, namely their distribution and significance in the conditions of martial law. In particular, we are talking about raising the role of a military woman not only at the family level, but also in society. The peculiarities of volunteering as an additional function and an obligatory duty of the family are analyzed. An overview of the features of the relationship between families and relatives living in Russia is carried out; field facts from various respondents are presented, confirming the break in relations in favour of civic duty, or expressing a desire to maintain contact with relatives regardless of socio-political contradictions.
Keywords
martial law, marriage, family, family values, personality education, family ties, volunteering, family and civic duties.
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