FOSTER FAMILY: WORLD TENDENCIES AND NATIONAL TRADITIONS

The author considers experience in organization and activities of foster families in Germany, USA, Italy and Russia. The emphasis is placed on the global tendency to return children temporarily transferred to foster families to their biological parents. Scientific approaches and technologies of preserving the relationship between a child and his or her biological parents are identified. The author presents methods and technologies of finding and teaching foster families. National specificity of social and pedagogical support of an adopted child is presented.