The attitude of the Russian people to a pregnant woman

In the modern world there are such rapid changes that sometimes we are lost from the fact that the habitual way of life ceases to find understanding among others. Especially hard is when these changes affect basic life values.

These values ​​include, for example, the birth of a child. In our time, the attitude of the Russian people towards a pregnant woman has undergone a major change, as, indeed, in the rest of the world. More and more women are choosing completely different life goals than raising children. They make a career, engage in complex sports for their own pleasure, have fun and travel. Children in this picture of the world are often unnecessary burden, which prevents to enjoy life.

The values ​​of hedonism, individualism and selfishness ceased to shock others. On the contrary, the desire for personal pleasure and happiness, and not for the creation of a strong family, has become fashionable among several generations of young people. On reducing the value of a child in the life of a woman, the separation of a young family with older generations also affects. Strangely enough, this may seem, but the cultures in which the elderly are revered and reverent to their opinion, maintain constant contact with them, the birth of children remains an important value. It is enough to turn our eyes to China, in which a strong bond of generations promotes demographic growth.

All these circumstances contributed to the fact that the attitude of the Russian people to issues of pregnancy and childbearing changed. Now the situations when the first baby a woman takes in her arms are not uncommon are her own child. She did not learn to swaddle or communicate with a newborn on the example of sisters and brothers, and therefore she has to learn the basics of maternal wisdom from books, magazines and articles on the Internet. It is no coincidence that glossy magazines about children and pregnancy have become very popular among young mothers: they learn from them what they used to learn from relatives or parents.

Despite all the changes that are taking place in the society regarding the issues of procreation, other countries can envy the relations of the Russian people to a pregnant woman. Each medal has two sides, just as there is no evil without good. Young mothers, becoming more educated and having access to literature on pregnancy and caring for the baby, have become bolder. Now the pregnant woman is not treated as a sick person, as it was before. A future mother can practice fitness almost till the very birth, learn how to drive a helicopter as a supermodel Giselle Bundchen, or master new ballet shoes, like Anastasia Volochkova. This is certainly a positive change in the attitude towards a pregnant lady, allows women not to drop out of the important social life that has become important for them. And in addition, researchers on maternity and childhood issues note that active work and entertainment during pregnancy better affect the psychological and physiological state of the unborn child than passive sitting at home. Of course, in the event that the future mother knows the measure of loading herself with her favorite interesting things and entertainments and does not suffer from physical ailments. Now the term "realized pregnancy" has become fashionable, which emphasizes the fact that a modern woman, although she began to give birth less often, often comes to this exciting event more morally, financially and psychologically prepared.

A separate issue, which is important for any future mother and her environment, is the issue of educating a future child. On the one hand, children working mothers often become "grandmother's children." On the other hand, psychologists note that the expansion of the so-called socialization institutions has a beneficial effect on the development of the baby. Simply put, if the mother works and does not want to give up her hobbies after the birth of the child, this child usually communicates with a large number of people from the earliest stage of development. Mom, dad, grandmothers, nannies in the early years of life, then various early development clubs, mugs and kindergartens allow the child to get better into the dizzying current of modern life. Having mastered the values ​​of an active way of life with the mother's milk, such a child from the time of birth gets used to different types of communication and different types of activities, is in different circles of communication, and thus gets more diverse models of behavior. His way of life and the values ​​of the mother come in harmony, because from childhood he is not only an example for imitation, but also the skills of active social life.

It is difficult to say how the attitude towards pregnant women and the birth of children will develop in the future. History is rich in examples showing that the development of this relationship is spiraling. Family values ​​are revived, then recede into the background. So we can not exclude such a course of events, when the children of careerists, having comprehended their life and their childhood, will form a generation of women and men more focused on the creation of a strong family than their parents having completely different interests.