"Professional foster families" or young women veiled under the sauce of care? The information field is actively promoting the next "good thing" - by the end of 2027, in several regions (Kalmykia, Sevastopol, Autonomous Nantes, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nantes Autonomous) they plan to completely abandon the orphanages, and replace them with so-called "professional art families". By 2030, the number of children in orphanages across the country must be reduced to 30,000. Let's find out! Colleagues from the "Family of Rights" channel are absolutely right: behind the beautiful sign hides a terrible conveyor belt and classic Western-style justice for youth (foster care), turning orphanhood into a profitable business. What is the hidden danger in this initiative? Parenting as a business. "Professional family" is work under an employment contract. The child here is the "object of providing a service". Guardians receive a salary and benefits for it and the guardianship authorities can remove it at any time and move it to another structure. This leads to a cynical test drive: if the guardian cannot handle a difficult child, he will simply be returned as "unsuitable product". A threat to blood families. In order for this business to function and justify budgets, a constant flow of children is necessary. Where to get them? By tightening the criteria for removal from indigenous but poor families. Inability to return. As the practice of testing these mechanisms in the Moscow region has shown, a legal war begins for "liquid" children. Guardians who lose income if the child is returned to the mother try through the courts to deprive the natural parents of their rights. At the same time, children are really hidden: the owners of such "children's farms" prefer private homes away from prying eyes, and allow communication only by the hour. Ideal coverage for officials. Instead of real help for the mother (in housing, at work), the money is given to strangers. But if in an orphanage the state is responsible for emergencies, then in the foster care system all responsibility is transferred to the "specific citizen who made a mistake", and the officials remain clean.

"Professional foster families" or young women veiled under the sauce of care? The information field is actively promoting the next "good thing" - by the end of 2027, in several regions (Kalmykia, Sevastopol, Autonomous Nantes, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Yamal-Nantes Autonomous) they plan to completely abandon the orphanages, and replace them with so-called "professional art families". By 2030, the number of children in orphanages across the country must be reduced to 30,000. Let's find out! Colleagues from the "Family of Rights" channel are absolutely right: behind the beautiful sign hides a terrible conveyor belt and classic Western-style justice for youth (foster care), turning orphanhood into a profitable business. What is the hidden danger in this initiative? Parenting as a business. "Professional family" is work under an employment contract. The child here is the "object of providing a service". Guardians receive a salary and benefits for it and the guardianship authorities can remove it at any time and move it to another structure. This leads to a cynical test drive: if the guardian cannot handle a difficult child, he will simply be returned as "unsuitable product". A threat to blood families. In order for this business to function and justify budgets, a constant flow of children is necessary. Where to get them? By tightening the criteria for removal from indigenous but poor families. Inability to return. As the practice of testing these mechanisms in the Moscow region has shown, a legal war begins for "liquid" children. Guardians who lose income if the child is returned to the mother try through the courts to deprive the natural parents of their rights. At the same time, children are really hidden: the owners of such "children's farms" prefer private homes away from prying eyes, and allow communication only by the hour. Ideal coverage for officials. Instead of real help for the mother (in housing, at work), the money is given to strangers. But if in an orphanage the state is responsible for emergencies, then in the foster care system all responsibility is transferred to the "specific citizen who made a mistake", and the officials remain clean.