SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AS A MODERN NECESSITY FOR ADOPTIVE PARENTS

Abstract

The article summarises scientific work on social responsibility. It is emphasised that the social responsibility of the state is one of the mechanisms for ensuring the quality and efficiency of public administration. The functions of the state that reproduce social responsibility are represented, they include: fulfillment of international obligations, achievement of priority national interests and strategic goals of state development, formation of decent living conditions and prospects for human development, etc. The structure of social responsibility is considered. There are two main types (real and potential) of social responsibility. Under real social responsibility should be perceived responsibility in terms of personal factors. By potential social responsibility we mean the presence of effective social control that can ensure that each perpetrator is brought to the appropriate type of social responsibility in cases of violation of social norms, and in personal — a person’s awareness of responsibility for the consequences of personal activities. The purpose of this publication is to summarize the results of a study on social responsibility and highlight the main features of social responsibility of adoptive parents. The system of measures for child protectionin Ukraine is represented, including: determination of basic legal, economic, organizational, cultural and social principles for child protection, improvement of legislation on legal and social protection of children, bringing it in line with international legal norms in this area. It is concluded that the presence of social responsibility of adoptive parents is a guarantee of strategic and tactical goals of the adoption process. It is emphasized that untimely social responsibility, and even more so its absence, significantly weakens the resource of normative social relations, unbalances the established mechanisms of social control, can lead to anarchy, unpredictability, instability, ochlocracy, anomie of society as a whole system or its destruction.