State and problems of underage maternity in Russia

Abstract

Research of the problem of young motherhood has a sharp social character. The theme is actual because of that influence which tests a society as a whole because of changes of political, social, economic and cultural character at the present stage. The author considers the reasons behind the underage maternity (medical physiological, social), analyses its relationship to the development of education and success of young mothers, as well as basic social contradictions of the underage maternity as a social phenomenon (humanistic, law, value issues).