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Kitezh: a community approach to raising children in Russia
- Author:
- MOROZOV Dimitry
- Publisher:
- Eland
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 248p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Kitezh is a network of therapeutic communities designed to get children out of Russia's orphanages and into loving foster families. The aim is to create a developing environment for education, care and rehabilitation. The first Kitezh village, stared in 1994, is in Kaluga Region. This book, by the community’s founder, Dimitry Morozov, tells the story of its development. It documents his own discoveries about what is needed to raise children, especially when they are, in his words, emotionally damaged, often failed by drunken parents and ignored by the state. The community approach aims to foster strong relationships between the children and adults based on the belief that this intensive social focus can help the children develop beyond their previous experiences, and give them the tools to help each other. Central to the philosophy is the idea of a child’s ‘image of the world’ as the lens through which all experience is filtered. The aim is to change a negative image of the world through love, education, support, discipline and honest feedback to enable the child to grow. The challenges and joys of this experiment in living are told in an informal style, and complex ideas are made accessible through anecdotes and reminiscences.
At risk in Russia
- Author:
- ROTHERY Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Third Force News, 20.11.98, 1998, p.5.
- Publisher:
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
Discusses how Scottish child welfare methods have been seized upon in Russia, and how Kibble Education and Care Centre in Paisley have taken a key role in helping Russia to develop strategies for helping children at risk.
Social work with vulnerable families and children in 11 Russian regions
- Author:
- TRYGGED Sven
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 12(2), 2009, pp.201-220.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The purpose of the study was to describe and analyse how key actors in the social sector in Russian regions identify problems, objectives and social work achievements in connection with vulnerable families and children. University personnel conducted 209 interviews using semi-structured questionnaires. Family problems were reported to be related to poverty, parents' alcohol abuse, the child's behaviour, the child's lack of social skills, domestic conflicts and problems getting adequate housing. The view of the majority of the respondents was that social orphanhood depends on poverty, alcohol abuse and the family's diminished role in society. Family incomes have improved but services have become more expensive. The social workers mostly put the child, not the family, in focus. Alcohol abuse was considered to be a greater problem in wealthier regions. Analyses between key groups showed that the respondents ranked problems differently, had similar ways of defining important objectives, but had divergent opinions on what social work could achieve concerning, for example, re-establishing the child's contacts with his/her biological parents. The respondents seem to be highly ambivalent toward alcohol abuse as a social problem and toward biological parents in vulnerable families. Social work in the regions is a profession in the process of formation.
Children of Russia - victims of crisis, beneficiaries of international law
- Author:
- BOWRING Bill
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Family Law Quarterly, 11(2), 1999, pp.125-136.
- Publisher:
- Jordan Publishing
This article seeks to analyse and explore the present plight of Russian children, the legislative and organisational attempts to address their problems, and some of the most controversial issues, especially the nightmare of abandoned children, and the issue of international adoption.