Nowadays standing of the institution of family: challenges and prospects

The paper considered the course of modernizing in the global community, and dynamic changes incurred to the contemporary society that entailed urgency to optimize rational control over the structural changes in society in order to secure sustainability of social evolution. All these have urged to reconsider relevance of the family as a fundamental social institution and a form of communal life that ensures reproduction of public life. The authors focused their attention primarily to the attitude survey of inhabitants of the Urals Federal District on the standing of contemporary families and challenges they face. On the grounds of sociology’ survey carried, the authors made a summary on the trends in family and conjugal bonds across the region.