Abstract
This article is devoted to the study of the causes of social orphanhood, the growth in the number of abandoned and abandoned children. The author focuses on the influence of personal factors on the problem of mother’s refusal from the child. The study of personal factors of abandoning children was carried out in two directions: taking into account maternal deprivation of persons who abandoned children and the characteristics of their socialization in childhood. The main factor in abandoning a child, which young women refer to, is the objective problems of everyday life: lack of housing, lack of work, money. However, in fact, behind them lies the problems of socialization and spiritual and moral order, transmitted from generation to generation.