In Russia, toughen requirements for guardians and adoptive parents
Specialists of the Ministry of Education have completed work on a draft law tightening the selection criteria for those who want to become adoptive parents or guardians. If the law is adopted, it will come into force on January 1, 2021.
What is new about potential guardians and adoptive parents? Firstly, the law will not allow adopting more than one child per year, and all adult members of the family, in which it is planned to arrange a child, will undergo the strictest psychological and psychiatric examination.
At the same time, according to the decision of the Constitutional Court, the ban on the adoption of children by people with such diagnoses as hepatitis and HIV is lifted.
The need to earn some existing legislation arose last year, when a series of large and loud scandals broke out in Russia: ten adopted children were taken from one family, suspecting that children were beaten, there were many cases of ill-treatment of adopted children.
The Ministry of Education has included several important innovations in the draft law. In the year of the family will be able to take only one child. Exceptions to this rule are possible, but only if it's about siblings.
As long as Russia has a government decree from 2009, it does not clearly indicate how many children can be in a foster or guardian family, but there is a recommendation - no more than eight. This restriction is only advisory.
New law forbid adoptive parents and guardians to change their place of residence at their discretion. Before moving to a new home, the decision on whether it is suitable for a child should be taken by the guardianship and trusteeship bodies. Without their admission, the real estate transaction is registered to be.
Methods of psychological and psychiatric examination of future adoptive parents or guardians have not yet developed. Therefore, at the moment, specialists do not understand who and how should make a conclusion about the purity of thoughts, the absence of mercenary intent and the psychic “normality” of the candidate candidate.
At the same time, now people with HIV-positive status can become adoptive parents, which previously was unthinkable, impossible in principle.
Work on the law on custody and adoption, as it was nicknamed by the people, began 7 years ago - in 2012, the law "Dima Yakovlev" was passed, which banned US citizens from adopting Russian orphans. At the same time, payments, allowances and “custodial” allowances increased, which made it possible to reduce the number of orphans in children's homes in the country to a minimum.
Now the new law with new rules should go public discussion. It will end on January 12, 2019.