Family and traditional family values in regulatory and protective legislation

The article is devoted to the analysis of doctrinal and legal concepts of “family”, “marriage”, “traditional family values”, “demographic security”. The authors emphasize that the emphasis of state policy on supporting the family and protecting traditional family values requires the use of a legal approach to the conceptual apparatus. Although Russian legislation already contains provisions aimed at protecting the family and traditional family values, for example, the institution of crimes against the family and minors (chapter 20 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the legal nature of the phenomenon of the family is manifested within the framework of various branches of law, therefore it is necessary to recognize the complexity of defining a single universal legal concept of “family” and the impossibility of enshrining it in legislation.