The Correlation Between Personal Traits Of Substitute Parents And Family Potential

Abstract

The study is topical due to the fact that in the modern system of family living arrangements for orphans and children left without parental care, there are certain difficulties: a model of an effective professional foster family has not been formed; insufficiently studied the relationship between the components of the psychological readiness of candidates for replacement parents and family resources; measurable criteria and indicators that provide psychological readiness for the adoption of a child for upbringing have not been determined. This, in turn, makes it difficult to place adolescent children with developmental features in a family, low willingness of candidates for replacement parents to accept children with significant deprivation experience, and the risk of a secondary return to the institution. The article considers the problem of the psychological readiness of future foster parents to adopt an orphan, raising the relationship between the personal qualities of future adoptive parents and the resources of a foster family depending on the gender of the respondents and the experience of raising children. The materials of the article are of practical importance for specialists in organizing the training of future adoptive parents.