Russia needs a reform of the Family Code in the field of divorce
Russia needs to reform the Family Code in order to increase the birth rate in the country and reduce tensions in the field of family relations.
The main drawback of the current Family Code is in the field of divorce and lies in the fact that the role of the father is legally artificially underestimated, and the role of the mother is artificially overestimated.
The function of a father after a divorce is usually reduced to paying alimony, with virtually no rights to raise their own children. The stepfather pays less attention to his children, which is natural, but the native father is relegated to the role of "Sunday dad" by modern legislation. This situation deprives the child of the love that his own father could have given him. Having weaned herself from the influence of the father of her children, a woman begins to see in him only a source of income, that is, alimony, as a result of which she begins to use common children as a tool of blackmail, in every possible way denigrating the father's actions in the eyes of his own children. Seeing such a negative attitude towards himself from his ex-wife and his own children, the father is looking for and finds a new family, into which he begins to invest all his love and money, in every possible way avoiding paying alimony to strangers for himself (but to former relatives!) people - his ex-wife and his children. In general, the norm for Russian relations after divorce is the disgusting mutual attitude between former spouses, the negative attitude of children towards their fathers and the lack of love among children.
This is not the case in the West, because there spouses have legally equal rights in reality, so the norm for former spouses is a good relationship after divorce. Western legislation has long resolved those financial and legal issues that destroy initially good personal relationships between loving people - these decisions just need to be transferred to the Russian legal reality, and that's it - the reform of the Family Code has been done!
According to statistics, there is a high percentage of divorces in Russia, so families destroyed by divorce usually have one child (if the woman did not marry for the second time) and two children (one child from each of the husbands) - this forms the foundation for the Russian fertility rate of 1.7 children per woman.
As you can see, normal family legislation, which sees a man in the father, not an alimony payer, and sees a woman in the mother, not a goddess, can radically improve the psychological climate in the country and easily raise the birth rate.
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https://www.academia.edu/124852139/DIFFERENCES_BETWEEN_A_MODERN_AND_A_TRADITIONAL_FAMILY
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