There are still many children who live in baby's and children's homes for this or that reason. Needless to say this plays a very bad role in their life.
Especially bad for children
if they live in such places from their birth. Babies should feel love
and care of a definite person or limited group of people. But in orphans' institutions
there are a lot of people who take care of babies, often 6-8 people who
work in shifts. And that is why babies do not get individual attention
and love from definite person. All this makes bad impact on their development
and usually children have big delay in their development not because
of mental disabilities but because of attention lack.
The main problems of children from orphans' institutions are following:
- To know how to live in society children must live in the society and not to be limited by walls of institutions.
- Children lack new impressions and that delays their development.
- Children lack social experience: buying food, asking the way way, going in transport. Home children copy behaviour from their parents and relatives, while orphans' children do not have examples.
- The biggest problem is lack of long relations with adults.
Children have many people who take care of them, teachers working in
shifts, nurses, doctors. These people change when children move to different
groups. And these people take care of many others, they cannot give much
individual attention to a definite child. So, as the result, children
love all in general but nobody deeply.
- Children do not have positive example of taking care of
little children so it often happens that people who lived in orphans' institutions
leave their own children there too.
- Living in institutions children adopt “consumer” attitude
to others. They think that the society owes them and expect compensations,
allowances, gifts when they leave children's homes. And real life
often becomes a serious stress.
- Children have big difficulties in putting aims in their life. They do not see how people make living. Living in institutions they are accustomed to get everything ready for them. Often “job, work” and “money” for such children are concepts that do not have any connection.