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Attitudes of preschool teachers and their experience with lesbian mother families
Reichertová, Karolina ; Smetáčková, Irena (advisor) ; Taušová, Jitka (referee)
This master's thesis discusses the topic of preschool teachers' experience with lesbian mother families and the topic of attitudes towards same-sex parenting. The primary aim of this thesis was to map how teachers perceive, experience and practice their professional relationship with lesbian mother families. Also, the research sought to examine whether and how teachers include family diversity issues in preschools. Theoretical chapters introduce subject of attitudes towards lesbian and gay parenting and homoparental families in preschool environments. Empirical chapters present quantitative research, whose main method was a survay questionare. The research sample consisted of 70 female teachers and 3 male teachers from preschools. Experience with lesbian families was reported by half of the research sample. The results revealed that the majority of teachers perceive their experience with lesbian families as positive and their cooperation is not associated with any major difficulties. Despite teachers' mostly positive attitudes towards same-sex parenting as well as towards cooperation with these families, the issue of homoparentality in preschools is still rather invisible. Inclusion of family diversity issues and specific activities promoting a welcoming environment for lesbian and gay families are...
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Equal treatment of homoparental families in the Czech Republic and the different aspects of their life
Slunéčková, Zuzana ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Vlčková, Kamila (referee)
My thesis should provide a comprehensive sum up of the life of homoparental families in the Czech Republic. I would like to closely see and monitor functioning of those LGBTI families and to research obstacles that these families must overcome to fully function in the society. In terms of equal and discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity I will examine in more details the processes, tools and institutions that provide the same conditions to all families without exception. I am primarily interested in barriers to the full functioning of these families, their access to assisted reproduction, surrogacy for gay families, and the legalization of non-biologic parent relationships to a child in a common household, their rights and duties. From a public policy point of view, I will find out whether these processes are in the accordance to equal and not discrimination treatment for all. By legalization of the partnership between homosexuals in the Czech Republic it has caused the logical development of this status and issues connecting to this law. Today, is often discussed the nature of this relationship and the possibility of its "transformation" into a full family structure ended up by marriage. This development raises a number of theoretical and practical issues. In my work,...
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