Dynamics of marriage-family relations of the population of the south of Krasnoyarsk Krai in the late 1940s - late 1980s

The article reveals the peculiarities of the evolution of families and households, marital status of the population of the south of Krasnoyarsk Krai, including Khakassia in the period of the late 1940s - late 1980s. The description of marriage and family relations of this period allows to estimate the nature of the demographic transformation of modern society with clear signs of crisis manifestations. In the postwar period of the late 1940s - early 1950s, the south of the region showed a "compensatory" rise in the marriage rate. Due to the significant imbalance of the sexes men's marriage rate significantly exceeded women's with a significant proportion of widows and women who never married. Only in the late 1970s - 1980s the young generations of the population largely overcame the imbalance of male and female nuptiality. With the liberalization of the procreative and matrimonial behavior of the population, the number of unregistered marriages and divorces increased. Young families had more divorces and broke up due to the socio-psychological immaturity and incompatibility of the spouses, dissatisfaction with living conditions, etc. At the same time, the simplification of the procedure of divorce in the middle of the 1960s resulted in the larger proportion of divorces in marriages of medium and long duration. The growth of the number of divorces did not exclude the possibility of re-marrying, most likely for the young and for the middle-aged generations. The studied period shows a decrease in the number of traditional families and growth of single-parent families. In the postwar years, single-parent families were associated with widowhood, women bringing up children alone; the birth of children outside marriage, creating single-parent (mother) families due to the violations of the age-sex structure of the population, etc. In subsequent years, the increase of single-parent families was stimulated by the increase in divorce rates of the population and the growth of births outside marriage with society being more tolerant to them. The growing fragmentation of families was explained by the desire of young people to be independent while maintaining close ties in housekeeping and assistance in upbringing children by the older generation. The author thinks that during the 1940s-1980s there was a change in the reproductive attitudes of the population of the south of Krasnoyarsk Krai from medium to small families. These processes initially spread in urban areas that gave good opportunities for the satisfaction of cultural and material needs and had greater demands to the quality of the labor force. As a result, many urban families resorted to limiting childbearing. The decline of childbearing in rural families was influenced by the urban lifestyle and urbanization of rural settlements. This process was exacerbated by the mass departure of young people for urban areas, the inevitable "demographic aging" of the rural population and the reduction of the number of families.

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