Modern approaches to studying the phenomenon of parenting are being analyzed. It is shown that fatherhood and motherhood as components of parenthood phenomenon are different ways of actualizing individual, gender and socio-cultural parental roles. The data was obtained of the sample of student-age people of Saratov State University named after N. G. Chernyshevsky (n = 60, largely females, age 16–22, 12% of them married).
