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The article reflects the results of investigation the phenomenon “childfree”, the movement joining the people who voluntary refused from childbearing. During the analysis of motivational orientations, worldview positions and axiological guides of the ideology followers it was revealed a special kind of childfree. These are so-called “regretting mothers” – women having children but regretting of their birth. A wide discussion of this problem began after the publication of the study results of the Israeli sociologis...

The article represents partial results of three-year investigation devoted to the childfree phenomenon. The subject of the research is the problem of voluntary refuse from childbearing in modern Russian society and possible consequences of such an ideology. The review of studies devoted to the given subject and the analysis of social researches about family, marriage behavior and reproductive orientations showed that the spreading of the childfree ideology is not able to influence on demographic situation in Russi...