Social orphanity in sociological study.

The article proposes a study of the phenomenon of social orphanhood, the social caus-es of the spread of social orphans, as well as some of their features in residential insti-tutions. Social orphanhood is a rather alarming sign, which shows not only unhealthy processes in the socio-economic sphere, but also the growing rate of cultural and mor-al deficit in society, the distortion of the institution of the family, and the lack of atten-tion of the State to the problems of maintaining a family with children throughout the entire period of reform. In addition, attention is drawn to the origins of social orphan-hood, namely, the general civilization processes that take place in under the influence of the devaluation of family values, the predominance of personal-achievable and he-donistic motivations compared to parental ones – both from men and from women.