The family is the natural, necessary and irreplaceable environment for the development and upbringing of a child. Depriving a child of a family causes inevitable disorders in his development and upbringing.

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5 reasons why foster homes are better than orphanages

Both foster parents and the person running a family orphanage are responsible for the 24-hour care and upbringing of children and the right to take care of the child on a day-to-day basis.

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1. Foster parents know their children better

It is not without significance that foster parents have fewer children in their care than carers from an orphanage. Thanks to this, they can get to know children, their problems and establish emotional bonds with them. This is necessary to build a lasting parent (guardian) - child relationship and to help understand the current situation of each child.

Foster parents have the opportunity to provide their children with the right dose of attention, love, kindness and a sense of security, which is so important in shaping the new world of children.

2. A chance for a better start thanks to foster families

Children from foster families have a worthy example to follow - their foster parents. Those can give them their time, love and respect, which children replicate in adulthood. Young people, especially children, need solid and good role models, they learn to function "anew", hence such people have an increased chance of a better start.

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3. Foster parents know the children's needs better than the caregivers from the orphanage

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In foster families, children can count on spending much more time with them than in orphanages. Common conversations, problem solving and performing all daily activities - these are the building elements of educating a young person and conveying the values that guide us in our lives. Foster parents are with their children 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round (often they do not take their leave).

Caregivers / educators in orphanages work in a system of 8-hour shifts, during which, in addition to taking care of children, they have to perform many additional administrative and formal activities. For this reason, they leave work quite often, and the children lose the most, each time remaining a feeling of abandonment and broken ties. Moreover, in addition to a few educators, in the lives of children in orphanages there is a constantly changing staff, e.g. director, psychologist, educator, nurse, cook, authorizing officer, administrative worker, etc.

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4. Stronger emotional ties with foster parents

The developed emotional ties with foster parents translate later in life into self-esteem, appropriate social relations with peers and other people. Appropriate relationships in the family, a sense of security and mutual respect build the personality of a young person.

In orphanages, children do not have a sense of belonging to the family, often have a disturbed sense of security, ending up with symptoms such as orphan disease.

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5. Learning the right patterns

Children, by observing the correct family model, learn anew the social roles functioning in the family, what a healthy relationship of loving people looks like, which is why their chance to create a valuable relationship and their future own family increases.