Importance The article discusses the remarriage market and individual strategies for matrimonial behavior of people in contemporary Russia. Objectives The article aims to study trends on the remarriage market and identify common forms of matrimonial behavior. Methods We held a mass questionnaire survey on a representative sample of residents of Volgograd and several districts of the Volgograd oblast, who had experienced marriage dissolution and had not, to determine whether they had common strategies for marriage selection and some main trends in marital behavior. We used certain specialized software and the methods of descriptive statistics, crosstables, etc. to process the primary data. Results We present certain data on the factors in choosing a particular strategy of marriage behavior among demographically active population of contemporary Russia. Conclusions In modern Russia, the divorce is often a voluntary choice of both spouses, considered as one of equiprobable options for the development of the marriage and family relations. This indicates the formation of a culture of divorce in Russia, so far being more typical of Western Europe and the United States.
Keywords: marriage market, marriage rate, divorce rate, post-marriage behavior
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