Interaction of Authorities and Business in Solving Housing Problems for Orphaned Children as a Mechanism of Control and Moderation of Social Dependency
Analyzing the prerequisites and conceptual basics of orphaned children’s social dependency, one can note that the phenomenon «social dependency», as it is, has a long history and gained the greatest momentum during the golden age of the national economic possibilities. In terms of the national history it was inherent to the development period of the “paternalistic “model of social welfare. All segments of the population are subject to influence of parasitism, yet we consider the orphanage as a specific subject of social dependency and come to the conclusion that such a negative form of orphans’ behavior is shaped in the process of their entire life-sustaining activity as affected by certain personal qualities in terms of deprivation and boarding-school environment. The more the number of orphans, the more obligations arise for the government in implementing their social guarantees. The article analyzes the rights of the orphaned children. The orphaned children’s priority right if the right to housing, as one of the most important problems that the foster children of orphanage houses and the children without parental support face, is the problem of housing provision. The housing problems of orphaned children are rather difficult to solve without presence of sufficient amount of financing. The article shows the mechanism of control and moderation of social dependency brought to life by this right. By analyzing the ways of implementing the housing rights of the orphaned children and the children without parental support, as well as the persons of those involved at the governmental level, the article offers a possible way of attracting business representatives to solving this problem. In order to make the business interested in participation in solving the society’s social problems, the government must create certain socio-economic conditions that would contribute to stimulating the business in providing highly-demanded social welfare and services.