“Revolutionary event”: the demographer appreciated the initiative of the Ministry of Labor to consolidate the unified status of large families

The minister noted that a number of additional steps are needed at the federal level as well. “First of all, securing the status of a large family,” he stressed as part of his speech at a plenary session in the State Duma. A large family, according to the draft decree, is a family with three or more minor children. The status and the right to state support measures, according to Kotyakov, will be preserved even if the children are under 23 years old and are studying full-time. The subjects, the minister noted, will retain the right to expand their federal status.

In most subjects of the Russian Federation, a family is already considered to have many children if it has three or more children under 18 years of age. But the rules are not the same everywhere, especially when it comes to the upper age limit of a child in such a family. In Moscow, for example, if a family has received the status of having many children, then it is considered such until the youngest child is 16 years old, and if he is studying, then all 18. And in some regions, the status is retained until the eldest child is 23 years old, if he studying full time. But there are no uniform rules at the federal level.

Recall that earlier, President Vladimir Putin, meeting on June 1 with families awarded the Order of Parental Glory, instructed the Cabinet of Ministers to speed up work on establishing a single status for a large family in all regions.

Well-known demographer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Institute of Demography, Migration and Regional Development Yuri Krupnov called this event “revolutionary” and “significant” for large families.

– Until now, there is no status of a large family either in the regions or at the federal level. In this sense, we had a legal black hole, – says Yuri Krupnov. – At the same time, of course, there are different working definitions of large families on the by-laws, basically it is a family with three or more children, until the eldest of three children is 18 years old. But in the law or in the presidential decree, which is equal in force to the law, this has not yet been recorded anywhere.

When this is fixed throughout the country in the form of a single act, it will be possible to work further on the basis of this act. Make changes to it, give additional powers to subjects, and so on.

In fact, the result will be the emergence in the country of a new social and legal institution – the institution of a large family.

The country has long had legislative acts that determine the status of the most important categories. For example, this is the federal law “On the status of a senator of the Russian Federation and the status of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.” According to the law, our deputy has a certain status that distinguishes him from all other members of society. Or “On the status of judges” and so on.

Now, for the first time at the level of state institutions, following the example of judges and deputies, we are raising a large family to a special height. This, in my opinion, is revolutionary. In this regard, I would express my deep gratitude to the associations of large families, many politicians and deputies for the fact that they have been powerfully moving this problem for ten years. This is the first moment.

Further, there is a lot of controversy – should everything be prescribed at the federal level or a lot of things should be given to the regions? But, in any case, the need for a single end-to-end basic federal status is obvious, because today the benefits for large families differ by region. Figuratively speaking, a mother of many children from Ryazan will come to the Tretyakov Gallery, and only families with many children in Moscow are allowed free admission. And she will have to “count the money” at the entrance. It turns out that she is no longer a Russian large family, like Moscow, but a special “Ryazan”.

The most important thing is that we will have a legal instrument with which we can continue to work. This will affect many aspects – and the earlier retirement of a mother and father with many children, and so on. It is also necessary, for example, to increase the diversity of a large family. It is clear that a family with three children is different from a family with ten, these are completely different phenomena. But those are the next steps.

… The head of the State Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children, Nina Ostanina, meanwhile, on June 14, assessed the initiative of the Ministry of Labor in her telegram channel: “The President supported our proposal to establish a single status for a large family! But the government took a different path. They are counting on the President’s decree, but our law must be adopted.”

We are talking about the fact that, as Nina Ostanina reported on June 13, “the inter-factional bill on the status of a large family, prepared by deputies of several factions, is already under consideration in the Government.” But he has not yet been brought into the ward. The bill establishes the status of a large family – a family where three or more children are brought up, regardless of the subject of the Federation.

Further, according to the bill, “all large families receive a single status, are entered in the register, which is prepared by the Ministry of Labor, and receive a single certificate that is valid throughout the Russian Federation.” And today, each region has its own certificate, and often, depending on the region, the possibility of obtaining services and benefits for large families varies.

The Ministry of Labor, on the other hand, believes that it is necessary to update the presidential decree of 1992 on large families. “But even if the Government gives a negative response to our initiative and follows the path that an updated decree is sufficient in accordance with the new conditions, we will also agree to this,” the deputy said, expressing confidence that the proposals from their bill will also be included there. .

We add that, as Nina Ostanina reported on June 14 in her telegram channel, the State Duma Defense Committee supported her amendment regarding the deferment from mobilization for fathers of three or more children. “The meeting of the Defense Committee has ended, which considered the amendment of the deputies of our faction to amend Article 18 of the law “On mobilization preparation and mobilization”, where a deferment from mobilization is granted to fathers of three or more children. The Committee took our side, obliging the Ministry of Defense to give an opinion. Practice has shown that this norm is supported by society. We hope that with the issuance of the presidential decree, we will support our large families,” said Nina Ostanina during a press approach before the plenary session.