a socio-psychological phenomenon that encourages a person to achieve goals and personal realization through the birth of a certain number of children. Motives determine the meaning of the appearance of children for a person, the achievement of a certain goal. Constructive and destructive motives are distinguished depending on what role they play for the family system as a whole and for the mother and child in particular:
1) Constructive motives are associated with the development of the family system, with the desire to give life to a new person;
2) Destructive – motherhood is not an end in itself, and the child becomes rather a means to achieve other goals, to realize third-party desires.