Kompensacja sieroctwa społecznego w działalności Rodzinnych Domów Dziecka – wybrane aspekty metodyczne

The situation in which there are problems with the proper fulfillment of both care-related and parental duties towards the children within a family can be in some cases referred to as social orphanhood, which is a major problem that affects children. One of the forms of compensating for social orphanhood is placing a child in a foster care, whose specific type is a family-based foster care. By providing individual care and protection to the children who cannot be brought up in their natural families and through proper family functioning family foster homes are intended to assure child’s proper physical, mental and social development, as well as to increase his or her chances of having a happy and carefree childhood.