CPC supports the campaign to encourage foster care

The Montenegrin Orthodox Church (CPC) will support and help the Every Child Needs a Family campaign, which was organized to promote foster care in Montenegro.

This was confirmed today by Metropolitan CPC Mihailo, who received a delegation that included the head of the UNICEF representative office, Benjamin Perks, the director of the directorate for social care and child protection, Goran Kuševija, and the UNICEF program coordinator, Ana Zec.

"Faced with this social phenomenon and the efforts of the state and UNICEF to solve the issues of children who enjoy social protection through specialized institutions through foster care and adoption, the CPC will participate in joint efforts to provide even more pronounced care and love to this category of young people in their upbringing and development", it was announced from the CPC.

According to them, for the CPC, the priority of the institute is the adoption of these children as the most desirable form of their care and a happier future.

"The disadvantages of foster care are overcome by adoption institutes and the integration of socially cared for children into a new relative or non-relative family community. In this way, this category of young people gets a "new" mother in a new family environment instead of a teacher and educator," the announcement says.

The CPC said that, in addition to material, social and status protection, this way helps preserve the child's soul, "which in the system of collective foster care is suppressed only by providing physical existence".

"Only a human person with a soul is a whole person and a person in the full and true sense of the word. The CPC will persist in the joint efforts of the Every Child Has a Family campaign, which is conducted with the goal of humane and noble implementation of the foster care process and the ever stronger affirmation of the adoption of children without their parents", said the CPC.