The study is devoted to the preparation of student youth involved in various sports to create a future family. The subject of the study is the identification and analysis of the opinions of students and female students athletes, making up a pedagogical forecast for the ideal image of their future family. Currently, the problem we have raised is relevant in connection with serious changes in the socio-economic and social sphere in Russia, and as a result of these circumstances, the creation of a specific attitude of student youth, including student athletes, to the upcoming marriage. The purpose of our research is in pedagogical forecasting of the image of future family by students-athletes who are subjects of the educational process on the part of teachers and coaches in sports at the Derzhavin Tambov State University. The main methods of our research: study and analysis of scientific and methodic sources; written questionnaires of unmarried students (15 boys) and unmarried female students (17 girls) of the second, third, fourth courses, who go in for one or another kind of sport; quantitative and qualitative interpretation of the data obtained, followed by discussion of the results with the subjects.