One of the scariest realities of modern life is orphanages. And not because life in them is hard - there are different orphanages, comfortable and not so good. But because the very fact that there are "unnecessary", unsettled children is striking in its cynicism.
To understand how children live in orphanages, one must first get rid of the myths that are deeply embedded in the minds of ordinary people.
Instructions
Step 1
The first myth: only orphans live in orphanages. In fact, there are not so many orphans, that is, those whose parents have died, in shelters out of the total number of children. Most of all in orphanages are children left without parental care. What does it mean? This means that the mother (less often the father, if any) is deprived of parental rights or is limited in them. They are deprived of parental rights by a court decision, and the reasons may be: inadequate child care, drunkenness or drug addiction of parents, a serious illness, being in prison. But first, parents are limited in their rights and children are removed from the family, giving the mother time to solve her problems. If the mother continues to live a marginal life, she is deprived of parental rights, and the child is placed in an orphanage.
Step 2
The second myth: cruelty flourishes in orphanages. This information came from articles appearing from time to time in the media about beatings of pupils by peers or staff. Here, of course, there is some truth, but such things do not have a mass phenomenon. A lot depends on the management of orphanages, on the staff, on how many children are there. There are small, “intimate” orphanages with no more than 40 children, which means that each child is supervised and an individual approach is applied to each. Most often, unpleasant incidents occur in correctional orphanages, where children with various mental disorders are located. This means that conflicts cannot be avoided.
Step 3
The third myth: children’s homes are poorly funded. Orphanages now have per capita funding, just like schools. It turns out that the more children, the more money. And good money is allocated. But if, for example, an expensive renovation needs to be carried out in an orphanage, additional funds can only be found in extra-budgetary sources - charitable foundations, non-profit organizations. Or you will have to cut back on children, for example, in food or clothing. Therefore, the leadership of orphanages are actively cooperating with volunteers. But since the money is allocated from the federal and regional budgets in half, the welfare of orphanages in economically depressed regions differs greatly from funding in Moscow and the region on a small side.
Step 4
The fourth myth: children are actively adopted by foreigners. In fact, the percentage of foreign adoptive parents is comparable to the percentage of adoptive parents from Russia. It's just that foreigners are given children with serious illnesses, which domestic adoptive parents do not take only because we have nowhere to treat such children. And foreigners are given children only for adoption, while in Russia a child can be taken into a foster family or under guardianship.
