Natalya Merkylova

The article presents the priority directions of the state social policy in the sphere of life of orphans and chil-dren left without parental care, as well as basic form of the device of orphaned children, considered the concept of a foster family. The characteristic elaboration of this problem at the level of the scientific litera-ture cited by Lena different points of view on any given topic psychologists and scientists. Identify certain psychological characteristics of children-orphans and children left without on-chip cookies parents, and dis-cussed the difficulties faced by children and their adoptive parents in family interaction.