ABSTRACT
In the USSR there are enough childcare institutions to take care of all children who lose their parents. Children must attend childcare institutions, but it is better that they live in a family setting because human feelings and emotions develop specifically in the family collective. In order to secure fully the children’s interests, the law provides certain conditions that must be observed in the adoption process. The adoption process itself must be sanctioned by an agency of state power. Only a person who can properly perform his child-rearing obligation should be an adopter. Minors and persons who are declared by the court to be entirely or partially lacking in dispositive capacity are not entitled to adopt children. The goal of guardianship and wardship is the rearing of children and providing the necessary care and attention to grown persons in need thereof due to the state of their health.
