Legal Regulation of the Term "Social Orphanhood"
Journal: Legal Linguistics
Year: 2024

The article covers the study of existing approaches to the definition of the concepts of "orphanhood", "social orphanhood", "social orphan" in federal, regional and local regulatory legal acts. A gap existing in Russian legislation has been identified – the lack of a uniform definition of the concept of "social orphanhood". It is determined that the conceptual and categorical approaches used in normative legal acts do not have a universal character, which can lead to violations of the rights and