In accordance with the Code "On Marriage (Matrimony) and Family", a large family is a family consisting of four or more minor children living together, including children studying full-time in organizations of secondary, technical and vocational, post-secondary, higher and (or) postgraduate education, after they reach adulthood until the time of graduation from educational organizations (but not more than before reaching the age of twenty-three).
In accordance with the Law "On State Awards of the Republic of Kazakhstan", mothers with many children who have given birth and raised six children, when the sixth child reaches the age of one year and if the other children are alive, are awarded the "Kumis alka" pendant, as well as mothers who have given birth to seven or more children when the seventh child reaches the age of one year and if the remaining children are alive, are awarded the "Altyn Alka" pendant.