Tamara Bykovsky - the Docent of academic department of social and family pedagogy of the Russian State Social University, Moscow, e-mail: bykovskaja-te@yandex.ru
Annotation. The article deals with a foster family, her well-being. The reasons that contribute to social orphanhood, analyzed the situation in modern Russia are highlighted and commented on the stages of child abandonment. Defined and justified principles of the social and cultural environment razvivayu-schey foster family. Highlights the important conditions that help to build a relationship of adequate foster parents with the child.
Keywords: foster care, orphans, foster family parents, family socio-cultural environment orphanages.