Problems of foster parenting were discussed at the family club at St. Elias Churchtranslated

When parents decide to take a baby from an orphanage into their family, they expect that the house will be filled with children's laughter, and that family life will sparkle with new colors and gain some fullness. But in practice the opposite often happens. On October 10, a meeting of the “Family Club” was held in the conference hall of the St. Elias Church in Krasnodar. Unusual. For adoptive parents. It turned out to be a little more intimate than the previous ones, but at the same time deeply alive and sincere. Perhaps precisely because the conversation was about a purely painful matter. Club members discussed why the expression “a child is formed in a family” sometimes fails, what to do with a child who has gotten away with it, where the boundaries of responsibility of adoptive parents end, and what is the most important condition for a child’s successful entry into a new family.

The “Family Club” program was attended by the head of the psychological center “Doverie”, Orthodox clinical psychologist Alexey Anatolyevich Uspenyev, the rector of the St. Elias Church in Krasnodar, Archpriest Dimitry Boltonov, the staff priest of the St. Elias Church, Priest Georgy Temirov, as well as mothers raising adopted children, and everyone who is interested...