Аннотация:The article deals with a differentiated cultural and historical analysis of the development of a child in terms of the stratification of modern Russian society. On the basis of empirical data, an objective socio-cultural situation of the development of children in Moscow is compared. The children from 5.5 to7 years old from the middle-upper and middle-lower social strata are taken. In this work, we move from the analysis of a wider cultural and historical situation of the development of a modern child to a narrower socio-cultural environment then we proceed to a specific family and description of individual cases. The second level of analysis is the inner plan for the development of a child, especially his self-awareness. Based on the nature of the parental attitude, characteristics of education, specifics of complaints, observation data and projective products, a typology of risk-taking options for the development of the personality of children from various socio-cultural groups was created. In each of the groups, the specificity of emotional-personal developmental variants was highlighted; the subtypes with the highest risk of deviations were identified. The results make it possible to structure and classify different variants of the deviating development of modern children from the groups studied, to trace mechanisms of deviation formation at different levels, from a particular family to a wider social reality.