Abstract:
The article is devoted to the problem of studying demographic facts and processes, in particular, the family – marital structure of population, in school geography of Ukraine. The significant need for students to study this topic is linked with social, economic, political and ecological processes from their own and public points of view. The article deals with concepts of «family», «marriage» and «family-marital structure», characteristics of modern types of marriage ties in different countries. Herewith, the main attention is paid to the importance of forming students’ attitude to a family as the most constant and flexible social institute in the conditions of world global transformations and Ukrainian demographic crisis. This research was carried out within the performance of the problem to form the demographic concepts in schoolchildren’s minds during the study of social-economic geography.