The Role of Substitute Family in Preventing Deviant Behavior in Adolescents

Abstract

The chapter focuses on the problem that is currently one of the priorities among the existing psychological and social issues that require special attention and immediate solutions. In particular, the authors argue that deviant manifestations in teenagers' behavior from among orphaned children and children left without parental care can and should be stopped with the help of such a social institution as the replacement family is today. In this context, crime prevention assumes that a substitute family for children left without parental care becomes a place where the child finds a use for their opportunities and initiative. The chapter aims to determine the existing social and psychological characteristics of orphaned children and children left without parental care that determine the development and manifestation of deviant behavior in them. Prevention of deviant behavior of foster children, carried out by various state and public organizations, among which the family plays a particularly important role and contributes to the resolution of existing individual problems.