Laikinosios globos tikslo įgyvendinimo galimybės

Abstract

The changes in economic, political and social life of the society have affected the families with small children. Parents are no longer capable in providing their main duties i.e. look after and help their children to become active members of the society. The increasing numbers of temporary care institutions shows the lack of parental will as only a small percentage of the children living in the temporary care institutions is determined by objective reasons. Temporary care itself makes up to 80 percent of all social care scope. The establishment of temporary care gives the parents a possibility to evaluate their behavior, choose another way of life and to get their children back, as the family is the main factor that determines children socialization. Temporary care is not extensively analyzed in scientific literature. Sociologists and psychologists distinguish these main functional family problems: unreadiness for motherhood, poor resources, no partner, increased expenditures, routine and lack of socially active life. These factors usually discourage parents’ positive attitude towards fatherhood and motherhood and various manias. Usually a single person i.e. single mother, separated parent, widow or widower or grandparent. Temporary foster care encompasses four main areas. The most important area is getting the child back to the family. The problems of the implementation are disclosed in the theoretical part of this work. These problems include inefficiencies in legal documents, administrative work, low number of social workers and financial problems. The study presented in this work showed that temporary foster care is mostly established because of subjective reasons i.e. lack of care and parents’ dependence of psychotropic substances. The report on children rights prepared by Children rights protection authorities in 2005 showed that the goal of temporary foster care is not fully implemented. The parents’ efforts and efficient system of social services are the main factors determining getting children back to families. The weak change tendency can be seen in parent behavior and motivation. The respondents recommend increasing the number of social workers, psychologists and other specialist and encouraging their cooperation. The educational programs for parents, increasing their legal responsibilities and promoting social services networks would increase the possibilities of the implementation of the temporary foster care goals.