ALCOHOLISM AS A FORM OF FAMILY DEVIANT BEHAVIOR: EFFECTS AND COUNTERMEASURES

Deviation in various forms is very common. The tendency to deviation from accepted rules of behavior has a long history, it appeared simultaneously with the emergence of humanity. Family deviations threaten the existence and development of normal family relations. Also threatened is the process of primary socialization of children. The article reveals the essence of alcoholism phenomenon in the modern Ukrainian family and focuses on the areas and methods of overcoming and combating alcoholism. Distribution of family forms deviation is accompanied by negative consequences for society, especially for children. Various deviations of behavior that children go throughout their lives, watching their parents, contribute to psychological, intellectual and physical violation of their development in the future and may adversely affect the development of society. In our opinion, the main ways to prevent this problem are: the efficient social assistance from the state, under proper social policy; educational work of certain institutions regarding the characteristics and consequences of deviations of conduct for the family, especially for children; the involvement of experts from various fields for the full impact of the problem. It is extremely acute problem, the marginalization of families takes place because of social pathologies such as alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, rapid population stratification. This leads to the spread of dangerous social phenomenon of social orphans due to parents neglect of family duties, particularly the emergence of marginal groups − the "street children" who are engaged in vagrancy and begging. Distribution of child homelessness and neglect is one of the most acute social problems of modern Ukraine and demonstrates significant "failures" in the implementation of specific family functions, inefficiency and inadequacy of many institutions of society. There are further trends of the modern family: 1) increase the number of divorces; 2) increasing the number of single-parent families and children born out of wedlock; 3) reduction of average length of marriage; 4) deposition time of marriage; 5) accommodation couples without marriage registration; 6) reducing the size of the family and the birth of children, followed by aging and even its depopulation; 7) increase the number of single people who do not marry; 8) reduction the number of second marriages and so on. Thus, the problem of the deviation of family forms is relevant in the modern Ukrainian society, because it requires detailed study and analysis.