V nastoyashchee vremya problemy sotsial"nogo sirotstva i puti ikh resheniya yavlyayutsya chrezvychayno aktual"nymi. Monografiya posvyashchena problemam sozdaniya i zhiznedeyatel"nosti zameshchayushchey (opekunskoy) sem"i i napisana na materialakh sotsiologicheskogo issledovaniya. Kniga adresovana sotsiologam, psikhologam, pedagogam, demografam, gosudarstvennym sluzhashchim, v ch"yem vedenii nakhoditsya zabota o sirotakh i ustroystve ikh v sem"i, a takzhe shirokomu krugu chitateley. Ona mozhet byt" ispol"zovana v kachestve uchebnogo posobiya dlya studentov gumanitarnykh vuzov, obuchayushchikhsya po spetsial"nostyam “Pedagogika”, “Sotsiologiya”, “Psikhologiya”.