According to provisional data, as of 1 June 2003, there were 279 thous. farms producing agricultural products (further – farms), whose land property consisted of one hectare of agricultural land or more, or whose agricultural land though being less than one hectare, gave income from agricultural products sales no less than forty minimum standards of living. Those farms had 2939 thous. ha land, of which 2542 thous. ha were agricultural land. On the average one farm had 10.6 ha of land, of which 9.1 were agricultural land. The average size of the farm in Lithuania is equal of a half average size of the farm in the EU as well as it is equal of the average farm size in Portugal. Some economic and social indices. The strategical plans of agriculture forecast two trends of farms development: specialized competitive farms, producing traditional products and supplying them to processing and trading companies; farms engaged in untraditional activity and producing ecological products, which realize their produce in market niches. Smaller cooperative farms will develop along with the large commodity production farms. The period of demographic transition ended in the 70ties when stabilization of demographic processes set in. Since 1989 till 2005 the rural population had reduced from 1188.0 to 1145.2 thou, i.e., only by 3.6. These were the lowest rates of rural population reduction in the second half of the 20th century. The recent stabilization of rural population is predetermined... [to full text]

Kiekvieno vaiko prigimtinė teisė augti savo šeimoje – saugioje ir jo raidos poreikius atitinkančioje aplinkoje. Deja, kasmet daugėja vaikų, savo šeimose patiriančių nepriežiūrą ir apleistumą, skurdą, prievartą, tėvų piktnaudžiavimą savo valdžia ir pan. Kai biologinė vaiko šeima nebepajėgi tenkinti svarbiausių vaiko interesų, jos funkcijas perima globos institucijos. Lietuvoje vaiko teises ir apsaugą reglamentuojantys pagrindiniai įstatymai pabrėžia būtinybę padėti vaikams iš socialinės rizikos šeimų išvengti socialinės atskirties, sukurti jiems palankias gyvenimo sąlygas bei teikti ugdymo paslaugas, kad jie galėtų vystyti savo socialinius įgūdžius. Globos įstaigos mūsų šalyje − bene pagrindinės institucijos, įgaliotos padėti tėvų globos netekusiems vaikams. Kartu pabrėžiama būtinybė iš esmės keisti požiūrį į vaiko globos klausimus, remiantis pagrindinėmis JT vaiko teisių deklaracijos nuostatomis, kuriomis vadovaujantis svarbu kuo daugiau vaikų apgyvendinti globėjų šeimose, šeimynose, kur tėvų globos netekusiems vaikams pagal galimybes būtų sukurta kuo artimesnė natūraliai šeimai aplinka. Tokią aplinką siūlo nevyriausybinės organizacijos, veikiančios pagal tarptautinės organizacijos SOS–KDI modelį, kur globotiniai gyvena šeimynose su mama-auklėtoja, vaikų kaimuose. Vaikų gyvenimo uždaro tipo globos įstaigose klausimai Lietuvos mokslininkų analizuoti įvairiapusiškai, tačiau pasigendama tyrimų, vertinančių vaikų ir mamų-auklėtojų tarpusavio santykius NVO vaikų kaimų šeimynose... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Every child has a right to grow in a family. However every year, due to various reasons, children get into guardianship institutions. It is a duty of the state and society to take care of these children in order to ensure the highest quality guardianship, as close to the environment of a family as the possibilities allow. Such environment is offered to children, who lost parental care, by non-governmental organisations acting under the model of the international organisation SOS – KDI, where the foster-children live in house-families with a foster mother, in special children villages. Organising the children’s life at foster home, it is very important to ensure good intercommunication between the personnel and foster-children. However so far only a few scientific researches were performed, which analyse the feelings of children, who grow in children’s villages families, and their relationships with the personnel. The objective of the Bachelor’s Thesis was to asses the intercommunication between the children residing in the children village families of NGOs and foster mothers, who work there. The research was performed at the foster families of NGO’s children villages. 98 foster-children and six foster mothers participated in the survey. Using the method of the questionnaire survey, it was researched how did children assess the care and guardianship of their foster mothers. Also, the approach of foster mothers towards their foster-children and their motivation to work... [to full text]