The plight of orphans under depopulation in Russia Part 1

Markova wrote an interesting perspective which helped me focus my dissertation for my committee. The rising retirement population is offset by a declining younger generation. The case for caring for orphans lies in the national need for a productive workforce from the younger population to support the aging population. Those in the prime of life should be contributing their labor so that the older generation can be taken care of. This is in turn should be the expectation when each generation reaches retirement age. With an approximate population of 600,000 orphans of 143 million people in the Russian Federation, that number is very high. Markova continues with the importance of taking care of children regarding the family and education.
"Under these conditions, the proper upbringing of children in the home and the kind of education that determines the quality of human capital, the development and multiplication of human capital,
have to be the state’s top-priority task".
This statement is quite strong, but supports a strong future for Russia in the midst of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the shock therapy of the 1990s, and the shift from democracy to tight central control for the sake of stability into the present time.

Markova, N. E. (2011). Social Orphanhood Under the Conditions of Depopulation. Russian Education & Society, 53(5), 85-92. doi: 10.2753/res1060-9393530507