Generic community as a guarantor of protection of childhood (by the example of the Republic of Tyva)

This article reveals the content and essence of protection of childhood in generic communities of tuvinians and the experience of social measures taken by them within a certain unwritten moral law «Uluschu uzhurlar». The key point of protection of childhood was a careful attitude to their direct descendants, as well as to other children (orphans, the sick, the gifted, the only child of others). Therefore, the resolution of the problems of childhood in a generic community was inextricably connected with the concept of conscience. In the context of the raised problem one of the important tasks of pedagogical science is the studies that form the basis for development of broader scientific understanding of the problem of protection of modern childhood taking into account the historical experience of nations.