Family resilience as a factor in ensuring the stability of Ukrainian society in conditions of extreme challenges

Abstract

Family resilience is its ability to adapt, self-organize in crisis conditions. In periods of social and economic transformations, economic crises, and especially in extreme conditions of war, family resilience is a prerequisite for the stability of society. The purpose of this study is to identify the strengths of the Ukrainian family, which determine its resilience, and its problems. Ukraine is a country with a strong family archetype, strong family ties. The advantages of the Ukrainian family are family solidarity, mutual assistance, exchange of services and material resources between family members. This provides operational assistance to relatives in extreme situations. The adaptive capabilities of the family make it possible to adapt to war conditions and maintain a certain quality of life. The hierarchy of family functions is transformed: the protective function of the family is strengthened; but the family continues to perform the most important demographic functions. At the same time, in conditions of a long war, a significant challenge to the resilience of the Ukrainian family are the deformation of the family structure of the population (especially the increase in single-parent families), an increase in the number of divorces, and the aggravation of gender problems.