Keyword: «children left without parental care»

This paper analyzes the content of the objective and subjective components of the social situation of children without parental care. Based on the study of psychological research, the author concludes that the identity of the children left without parental care, is formed in a special, deficit of the social situation of development, the optimization of which is the focus of psycho-pedagogical support personal development of these children.

The article reveals the problems that substitute parents face already at the initial stage of creating such a family, when the motives for adopting an orphan child into a family arise and form. To solve many problems of future and formed substitute families, social support is organized, which is aimed at comprehensive assistance and support of these families. The author presents the experience of the Service for the placement of children in the family «Tatiana» (Department of Social Protection of the population of the administration of the Valuysky city district of the Belgorod region).

The article considers the relevance of the problem of preparing orphans and children left without parental care for independent life and the difficulties they face in this process, as well as a brief description of modern technologies for preparing this category of children for independent life.