Introduction. The protection of the family, motherhood, and childhood is one of the priorities of the policy of the modern Russian state. This is directly indicated by the content of Article 38 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. In other domestic legal acts, the legal mechanisms of this protection are consolidated. In a similar vein, today we should consider the prohibition of propaganda of non-procreation, established in paragraph 1 of art. 6.21 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation.