Resolution on Creating Family-Style Children's Homes, August 1988.
This Resolution approves a proposal of the V.I. Lenin Soviet Children's Fund for setting up "family-style" children's homes in the Soviet Union. Children's homes are to consist of a) children's towns--single-family, multiroom homes occupied by families raising at least ten orphaned children and children left without parental care; and b) premises of individual families raising at least five such children while occupying separate multiroom units in regular apartment buildings, specialized buildings, or groups of buildings. In addition to residential buildings, children's towns are to contain a secondary school, a sports and fitness center, preschool facilities, housekeeping and preventative health care buildings, auxiliary farming plots, and other land where children and adults can work together. Thirty homes are to be built in the period 1988-1991. The Resolution also approves proposals establishing an All-Union Wardship Council; charging public health officials with providing permanent, qualified health care, consultation, mental health care, and diagnostics to every family assuming the responsibility of raising children; setting the task of organizing expanded research on children's health and treatment; recommending that enterprises, organizations, and institutions provide transportation service to family-style children's homes and families of employees raising these children and give them passes to sanatoriums, preventoriums, recreation centers and vacation complexes; and pledging the Council of Ministers' participation in the financing, construction, outfitting, and equipping of these homes and in providing material assistance to families raising orphaned children and children left without parental care. The Council of Ministers also decided that the time foster parents spend in raising five or more such children will be added to their overall continuous work record for the purposes of pensions and benefits and to their length of service in their specialty.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001519:Behavior; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D005060:Europe; D005061:Europe, Eastern; D005581:Foster Home Care; D005843:Geography; D006798:Housing; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011640:Public Policy; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012426:Russia
Age Factors; Behavior; Child Rearing; Child--legal aspects; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Eastern Europe; Europe; Fostering--legal aspects; Geographic Factors; Housing--legal aspects; Laws And Statutes; Neighborhood--legal aspects; Orphans--legal aspects; Population; Population Characteristics; Residence Characteristics; Russia; Social Protection--legal aspects; Spatial Distribution; Youth