PROBLEM OF SOCIAL ORPHANHOOD IN MODERN UKRAINIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

Social phenomenon as orphanhoodis investigated in the article. The orphanhood is a social phenomenon that characterizes the condition of a child, who is temporarily or permanently outside the family environment because of the loss of parents, as well as of a child, who, for some reasons or for his own interests, cannot remain in the family environment, needs the protection or help from the state. The purpose of the article is investigation of the main problems of social orphanhood in modern Ukrainian society. The main types of social orphanhoodare identified: complete orphanhood (children became orphans due to the death of parents) and social orphanhood (children of parents, who do not fulfill their responsibilities for various reasons, namely, such children are one of the main categories among disadvantaged children). The main reasons, which provoke (determine) the emergence of social orphanhood, neglect and homelessness of children in Ukraine at the present stage are considered. Two criteria of the reasons of social orphanhood are analyzed. Factors that carry out an external negative impact on the family should be attributed to the first, internal negative factors that may appear in the environment of family because of influence of external factors should be attributed to the second. It is indicated that the policy in the field of preparing young people for parenthood, teaching parents to perform their functions in issues of education and caring for children, explaining the responsibility of parents for the education of law-abiding citizens of our state, needs to be changed for solving the problem of social orphanhood. It is indicated about the need for an effective state policy that is aimed at increasing the level of material provision of the population, the creation of work places and the amount of salaries that is corresponding to vital needs; about the need of creation of social programs for material and psychological support of families with children, young families, single-parent families. The social policy of the Ukrainian government should be aimed at raising family values, forming a cult of the family, and education of responsibility of parents for fulfilling their parental responsibilities.