Authors : Olga A. Volkova, Oksana V. Besschetnova, Viktor V. Baharev, Leonid Y. Dyatchenko and Galina A. Elnikova
Abstract: The study presents the results of a sociological survey, conducted in 2016 in the framework of the research project "life trajectories of children and their biological parents, restored their parental rights" in Belgorod, Saratov regions and the Trans-Baikal region. The purpose of the survey (expert individual interviews, N = 25) is to analyze the conditions of social orphanhood as a reason of termination of parental rights. The main conditions were the following: neglect; shifting responsibility for the childcare to relatives and other people because of the labor migration; the reduction in the number of social services for families and children; the reorganization of rural schools.
Olga A. Volkova, Oksana V. Besschetnova, Viktor V. Baharev, Leonid Y. Dyatchenko and Galina A. Elnikova, 2016. Termination of Parental Rights as a Reason of Social Orphanhood in Russia. The Social Sciences, 11: 6854-6857.