[The health conditions of children being left of parental custody as factor of refusal of admission into the surrogate family].

To investigate the causes of the denial by prospective foster parents to accept orphan children and children without parental custody into their family a special study was organized. The medical inferences of 307 children, inmates of children's homes registered in the data base of Regional of Ivanovskaya oblast and comparative characteristics of their somatic health were analyzed. It is established that among children denied to be accepted by the families prevailed ill-health children and number of diseases per one child was higher.

[The social profile of women, who abandoned the infant in the maternity hospital].

The social profile of mothers of social orphans based on the results of questioning the women who abandoned the infant in the maternity hospital is exposed. The social factors are determined to allot the risk group of women refused to bring up their children already before their birth. It is established that a significant part of women needs the social, financial and psychological support in bringing up their children.

[On the issue of prevention of the social orphanage].

The issue of social orphanage is discussed. The risk factors are picked up to develop the tables forecasting the risk of non-returning of the children temporarily placed into children's home into one's biological family. It is proved that the timely carrying out of comprehensive actions related to the children's coming back to their family will permit to impact significantly the decrease of the number of social orphans.

[The system of forecasting the health disorders among the adolescents at the age of 15-17 years].

The issues of forecasting of health disorders among adolescents at the age of 15-17 years are discussed. The analysis and assessment of the factors of biological and social anamnesis of the adolescents is carried out. The psychological and functional risk factors are revealed.

[The somatic health of children's home inmates with the perinatal affections of central nervous system].

The characteristics of somatic health of children's home inmates with the perinatal affections of central nervous system of slight and average severity are analyzed. It is established that these children are characterized by more frequent morbidity and formation of chronic pathology in earlier periods as compared with their coevals from families. They have significantly higher rate of background pathology and more numbers of health disorders falling to 1 child.