Every year about 3 thousand children are taken from families and half of them are accommodated in various children caring institutions and during the last decade of the 20th century the number of children living in caring institutions increased by 30 percents. These tendencies motivate to analyze the situation: where children left without parents care are directed, whether institutions taking care of such children have conditions for child socialization, whether all children under care are equally funded by the state‘s positive socialization funds. Nonfiction, the analysis of standard and statistical documents, quantitative (142 children were examined) and qualitative (17 supervisors of child care institutions were questioned with the help of structural interview and explicit conversation) tests prove that many children living in such institutions have acquired more negative than positive socialization experience, therefore they often feel insecure, avoiding social relationships, their psychosocial development especially during the teen years can be disconcerted – thus it affects negatively their social maturity and socialization. Moreover, after analyzing the role of professionals and opportunities for civic education in children care centers we can say that experts and social agents working in such institutions play the most important part in the organization and management of the positive socialization process. Their professional preparation and ability to work in... [to full text]