Foster carers in Montenegro are mostly relatives of the child, in the third age of life, at the end of their working life and with the children they took on a trip, exhausted, and almost themselves burdened by the tragedy that befell the children they are now caring for.
Such a profile of foster carers is provided by the non-governmental sector, which deals with this type of alternative accommodation for children without parental care.
They agree that foster care in Montenegro is not at a satisfactory level, that citizens are ignorant, and that there is not enough promotion of this form of child protection.
This is why relative foster care is the most common, that is, when family members decide to provide a home for a child, while non-relative foster care, which is also foster care in the true sense of the word, is still in its infancy.
According to data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, there are currently 392 children in foster families, of which the most are in Podgorica, 128, followed by 57 in Nikšić, 22 in Rožaje, and 21 in Bar.
"Foster care is not sufficiently developed. In fact, there are no unrelated foster families, all children without parental care are placed with close relatives (grandmothers, aunts, uncles, aunts, uncles). Following the situation in the environment, we know that in all other countries in the surrounding area have highly developed non-relative foster care, which is actually real foster care," said pedagogue Rada Milašinović, an activist in the NGO Impuls.
She emphasized that it would be necessary to pay foster parents for their working years, because in all surrounding countries, such a measure particularly affected the interest in foster care.
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