The purpose of the article is to disclose the place and the role of a young family in formation in perspective of the family potential of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The family represents an association of people based on marriage or consanguinity, who have a common life and mutual responsibility, and is an essential component of the social structure of the society. It is the most important life value in many countries. These days, there is often a transition to new models of family formation. The family in Uzbekistan is quite stable, despite new and not always positive trends occurring in the world. It continues to be the most important value in life, the guardian of national traditions and customs, the basis of personality formation and healthy way of living. The scientific novelty of the article is that for the fi rst time the role and the place of a young family in formation in the perspective of family potential is disclosed using the example of Uzbekistan. According to the Law of the Republic of Uzbekistan «About the State Youth Policy» a young family is a family where the age of both spouses does not exceed thirty inclusive, or a family in where children (child) are raised by one parent aged no more than thirty inclusive, including the divorced, and the widower (widow). Procreation of population is largely due to a young family (3/4 of the total number of children are born with the parents under 30 years of age). Uzbekistan is characterized by a high marriage rate. The population, entering into marriage, increases annually in the Republic. At the same time, the marriage rate grows. All this promotes formation of young families and increase of their share in the total number of families in the Republic. The measures provided by the state policy concerning families in general, refer, mostly and largely, to young families in the fi rst place. Methods of statistical analysis, methods of groups, and methods of sociological poll are used in the article. The results of sociological research on determining reproductive attitudes of the population in general, including youth, are given in the article along with the data of the offi cial statistics. According to the sociological survey conducted by the scientifi c and practical center «Oila», a question: «How many children should be in a family?» was asked, and 22.6% of the respondents answered that there should be three children; 16.7% – two children; 16.4% – four, 13.8% of the respondents – fi ve children. The results of the conducted research demonstrate that formation of a demographic situation in the long term, high-quality development of the population, and economic growth rates in the Republic of Uzbekistan will depend considerably on reliability in family – the marriage relations and dynamics of reproductive intentions developing in young families.
