Change in Orphanhood Scale in Russia in the Context of Deinstitutionalization Reform

Alla O. Makarentseva – Main Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ramilya R. Khasanova – Senior Researcher of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Candidate of Economic Sciences (Moscow, Russia). E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Presently Russia is undertaking an ambitious reform in the sphere of orphans and children without parents. From 2014 a dismantling of a large network of child-care facilities has been taking place with development of the institute of substitute families and creation of services of support of families with children for preventing social orphanage cases both primary and secondary. All this make urgent research in the sphere of child-care. Present work justifies the need for further development of family forms for children. Moreover, authors demonstrate urgency in resolving issues of subordination of various types of child-care facilities and setting up statistical recording in this sphere.

The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.

Key words: orphans, children without parental care, family, deprivation of parental rights, restriction of rights.