Abstract: The author considers the specifics of the influence of mass media on the process of formation of spiritual and moral values among students of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The special role of patriotic education and its interrelation with the process of formation of spiritual and moral values among police cadets is shown. Arguments are given about the importance of protecting law enforcement officers from negative information impact in a globalizing world. The object is cadets of educational organizations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. The subject of the article is the peculiarities of the informational and psychological impact of the media on the spiritual and moral sphere of a person's personality. The author considers in detail such important aspects of the topic under study as the ability of police officers to counteract the negative influence of the media in a modern digital society, the main areas of media influence on the personality of police officers, the ability of cadets to form a system of spiritual and moral values. The author proves the thesis that the developed spiritual and moral values of cadets are a necessary barrier to the threats of the modern globalizing world. The novelty and relevance of the research are due to the complicated socio-political situation in the world and the need for additional research that opens up new mechanisms of information and psychological impact of mass media on the spiritual and moral sphere of the individual. The researcher comes to the conclusion that in order to ensure reliable protection of police officers from the negative impact of the media, it is necessary to block hostile media-foreign agents, increase the intensity of the pedagogical impact of the educational organization system and work on leveling the negative informational and psychological impact of the media.

Abstract: In this article, we have made an attempt to consider the causes of family problems in modern society that affect the process of forming a sense of patriotism. Today, attacks in the media continue on traditional family values that play an important role in the life of Russian society, the ideologists of multiculturalism seek to exclude from the value field of our citizens the desire to fulfill moral duty to the Motherland and family, transform fundamental concepts such as personal dignity, justice, etc. Russian Orthodoxy is the spiritual foundation of Russian culture, the guarantor of ensuring the national and cultural identity of our civilization, determining the behavior and thinking of the Russian people. The subject of the study is the process of forming a sense of patriotism in the family. The object of the study is the peculiarities of the family and household sense of patriotism. Special attention is paid by the author to the attitude of young people to the birth of children and the subject of spiritual and moral values.
The author describes the features of the formation of the family-household type of patriotism: the concept, types, research, specifics of education. To determine the factors that interfere with the formation of a family-household type of patriotism, a sociological survey of 120 police cadets was conducted, which allowed identifying the main groups of adherents of certain views on the problem of spiritual and moral values. The main conclusion is the proof of the thesis about the need to form large families as one of the foundations of the well-being of our state. The researcher's special contribution consists in highlighting the reasons why mothers and fathers do not want to have children, deaxologizing the goals of marriage among modern youth. The novelty of the study is the actualization of the question of the need to form a sense of patriotism in the family. The description of promising areas of further research on the subject of fostering a sense of patriotism is given.