Domostroi, 15 children per woman, and full patriarchy. How schoolchildren in Krasnodar Krai are taught to build a “proper” family...

Domostroi, 15 children per woman, and full patriarchy. How schoolchildren in Krasnodar Krai are taught to build a “proper” family.

In Krasnodar Krai, as part of the subject “Family Studies,” they widely use the manual Moral Foundations of Family Life, written by a nun and an archpriest and published in a separate print run with a foreword by the governor. The authorities cited in the manual are religious figures and Putin’s favorite philosopher Ivan Ilyin, who in his writings sympathized with Hitler and fascism.

\️⃣ Here is what it says:

➖The manual introduces the term “Telegony” — a pseudoscientific idea that a woman’s past sexual partners, especially the first, can influence the hereditary traits of her future children.

➖The ideal family is a rigidly patriarchal order modeled on the 16th-century Domostroi: the man is the unquestioned head, the woman is an “assistant” and keeper of the hearth.

➖Gender equality is a Western and communist fabrication; women’s rights and the pursuit of a career are “god-fighting,” a path to loneliness and neuroses.

➖A “trial marriage” and living together without a church wedding are called “fornication.”

➖The image of independent women and “carefree men” is interpreted as “information sabotage.”

➖Modern one-child families are called a breeding ground for infantilism and selfishness.

➖In the chapter “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” abortions at any stage, intrauterine devices, and hormonal contraception are equated with child murder.

➖The demographic crisis is explained not by economics, but by a “geopolitical order” from Western elites to destroy the family.

➖Family planning and sex education are described as tools of demographic restraint.

1️⃣ The ideal modern Russian family, in the opinion of the manual’s authors, looks like this:

✔️The large family of pre-revolutionary Russia, where a peasant woman gave birth to 15 children, and the child was not the “center of the universe.”

✔️Nicholas II’s family is held up as an example: ascetic daily life, hard beds, simple food, emphasized discipline, and unconditional service to the Fatherland.

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