ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ РОДИТЕЛЬСКОГО ОТНОШЕНИЯ К СТАРШИМ И МЛАДШИМ ДЕТЯМ В СЕМЬЕ

This article examines the psychological approaches to the phenomenon of the parental relation to the older and younger children in the family as urgent problem connected with the modern demographic situation in Russia. The authors seek to identify differences in relation to the eldest and youngest children based on scientific concepts of various foreign and domestic researchers (A. Adler, P. S. Vygotsky, V. N. Druzhinina, E. A. Savina, E. O. Smirnova, V. M. Tseluyko, E. Schaffer and others). The empirical part of the article describes the results of research of a parental relationship, which was conducted with the help of the techniques worked out by Y. A. Varga, V. V. Stolin, I. M. Markovskaya, E. G. Eidemiller.