State of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools

. The article is devoted to the issue of state of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools. The author defines the criteria and indicators of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools: cognitive criterion (knowledge of functions of modern family; knowledge of the essence of responsible parenting; knowledge of the basics of reproductive health); emotional-value criterion (positive emotional attitude towards making a family and having children; the ability to empathize; the need for communication and interpersonal interaction); behavioral-activity criterion (the ability to interact harmoniously with other people; the acquisition of skills aimed at strengthening reproductive health; the ability to self-improvement as a future father / mother). The levels (high, average, and low) of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools are characterized. At different stages of scientific study the following research methods were used: theoretical – analysis, comparison, classification, generalization in order to determine the criteria, indicators of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools; empirical – questionnaires, incomplete sentences, conversation, testing, exercises, generalization of independent characteristics, indirect observation in order to identify the levels of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools. point for discussion and further research that can be aimed at theoretical substantiation and experimental verification of pedagogical conditions for formation of responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools. among high school students in boarding schools; empirical – questionnaires, incomplete sentences, conversation, testing, exercises, generalization of independent characteristics, indirect observation in order to identify the levels of readiness for responsible parenting among high school students in boarding schools. The research was carried out based on Pereiaslav-Khmelnytskyi boarding lyceum “Patriot” in Kyiv region. The study involved 105 high school students of this institution of general secondary education.