V knige pokazany tendentsii razvitiya semeyno-brachnykh otnosheniy naseleniya Kazakhstana na rubezhe vekov: kontsa KhIKh nachala KhKh vekov i v kontse KhKh nachale KhKhI vekov. Rassmatrivayutsya istoriko-demograficheskie aspekty transformatsii semeyno-brachnykh otnosheniy v klyuchevye periody istorii, a takzhe osobennosti etnicheskikh i regional'nykh kharakteristik brachnosti naseleniya. Monografiya rasschitana na istorikov, demografov, sotsiologov, a takzhe na shirokiy krug chitateley, interesuyushchikhsya istoriko-demograficheskimi problemami Kazakhstana.