The monograph is devoted to highlighting the problems of everyday life of various strata of Volyn society of the 16th - first half of the 17th centuries. For the first time in Ukrainian historiography, on the basis of a significant set of documentary and narrative sources, the widest range of problems in the social history of the early moderal time is considered, namely: the practice of marriage, the nature of the marriage model, the typology of marriage and family forms, their relationship with the marriage model and procreation behavior, the influence of the marriage model on the structure of the family, and the like. Internal motivations and mechanisms of demographic behavior of the then people are revealed, the specific manifestation and content of which were determined by the influence of a whole range of objective and subjective factors: economic, social, legal, religious, political, etc. Based on documentary sources, statistics have been collected and the childhood of a noble family has been calculated.