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Professional faster care abroad
Chlubnová, Gabriela ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
Bachelar thesis is devoted to the topic of professional foster care abroad. The target of the thesis was to show the way of the functioning this form of the substitute family care in two different countries. The first part describes the characteristics psychological aspects of the foster care. Another part talks about the professional foster care in Slovakia. After separation of Czechoslovakia, the system of the substitute family care in Slovakia was developing differently than in the Czech Republic. There is a literature dealing with these issues of the professional foster care in Slovakia so I could well study it and wrote complexly about this issue. There is also a part in my thesis about the civil association "Návrat", which supports the comeback of abandoned children in to the family. The important part of the process of comeback of the abandoned children in to the family is the social work with dysfunctional families. The final part of the thesis informs about the professional foster care in Norway. I was studying in Norway at the Erasmus program so I had the great opportunity to get the information about the system of the professional foster care from the people working in such a organizations in Oslo. Norway is one of the most advanced countries in Europe so also the system of professional...
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Cooperation with the biological family whose child is taken to the children´s home.
KŮSOVÁ, Hana
The bachelor thesis deals with the problem of cooperation of the biological parents of children who are placed in institutional care of the children's home Sazava. The theoretical part is dedicated to the foster care system with emphasis on placing a child in institutional care and upbringing as taking place under such conditions. This part is completedwith the theme of family redevelopment.The goal of my work is to approach this collaboration, its possible forms and possibilities, but also to identify the most common reason for children to be placed in institiuonal care at Sazava. To fulfill the research objectives I used case studies and document analysis
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Foster care termination prior to child's legal age
SEDLÁČKOVÁ VINKLEROVÁ, Blanka
In the Czech Republic, substitutional family care takes several different forms. The most frequent are adoption and foster care. This thesis concentrates primarily on foster care. The most important preconditions for placing a child into foster care are the child?s interest and the guarantee of a proper upbringing. Children in foster care maintain the ties with their biological family, and the parental responsibility remains with the biological parents. Foster care begins with the decision of a court and ends when the child reaches maturity. However, the court may terminate it sooner if there are relevant reasons. The reasons for terminating foster care before the child reaches maturity can originate either on the children?s or the fosters? side. In any case, the subsequent failure of foster care has a tremendous impact on the future lives of the children involved. This thesis aims on discovering reasons why foster care is terminated before the child becomes an adult. The secondary aim is to determine the influence of foster care on further life of children who were placed into it. The strategy used in reaching these aims was the qualitative analysis. The employed methods included the questioning, partially directed interview and document analysis. The first research sample consisted of a female and several males in the age of 20 to 27 who grew up in foster care which had to be terminated before they could reach maturity. The second research sample consisted of foster couples in whose families the members of the first sample had been growing up for some time. The results indicate that the reasons for premature foster care termination can indeed be found on the child?s as well as the foster?s side. On the part of children, problems are often caused by their age, their capabilities in school, genetic predispositions, and their ability to accept the values of the substitutional family. On the part of fosters, the most important factor of foster care success is their ability to accept the child with his/her specific needs and personal limitations which are given by his/her unfavorable family conditions and personal anamnesis. Due to unrealistic expectations of the foster family the children subsequently fall into undesirable behavior, and the combination of these factors endangers the stability of foster care. The motivation of fosters to conduct foster care is highly relevant as well. This research has also concluded that life of young people who spent some time in foster care is most definitely influenced by their stay in substitutional families. A positive influence can be seen in the experiences, opinions and values acquired in the foster families. These values have formed the children?s own view of life. They became aware of differences between normally functioning families including their foster families, and their biological families? way of life. This realization serves them well when building their own independent life. The author of this thesis is convinced of the severity of this topic because it has a direct impact on the lives of young people. The author believes it is necessary to focus on the selection of future foster parents in terms of their suitability to accept a specific type of child. Also, it is of paramount importance to take into account their moral profile. The results of this thesis may support a better selection of suitable fosters, creation of family ties, and better work with foster families. The thesis will be made available to a regional authorities which make decisions about the suitability of fosters, as well as to social workers from institutions that focus on social and legal protection of children with regard to foster care.
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Protection of the foster Family in the Czech Law
BÍNOVÁ, Lenka
This bachelor´s work deals with the protection of the alternative family in the Czech law. The aim of the work was to find out whether the legal system of the alternative family care doesn´t show lacks and whether it really protects the interests and rights of minor children and their alternative parents. This work is devided upon two basic parts, the theoretical and the practical part. In the theoretical part the present conditions of the alternative family care in the Czech Republic are described. It especially concentrates on foster care and adoption. The following chapter is dedicated to confirming of the alternative family care in laws. I deal here more with actual questions of the law system of the alternative family care ? the amendment about social-law protection of the children and a new Civil Code. The last chapter of the theoretical part describes the own process of intermediation of the alternative family care and it points on pitfalls and problems connected with this issue. The practical part concentrates on the description of the technique of information collection and result evaluation. The qualitative method of the semi-structured interview. 12 specialtist answered the questions ? 4 judges and 8 social workers. It´s clear from the results that in these days the state ensures sufficient protection for alternative families according to the specialts. The respondents alerted to changes that are brought by law amendment about the social-law children protection, about family even the new Civil Code. These changes which especially concern the support and professional accompanying of the alternative family along with the respect of the children´s rights to know his origin, they can provide the alternative family according to the opinion of the respondents with increased protection and decrease the risks of malfunction. It is safe to say that the contribution of the law changes will be verified in practise in the course of time. Even though the most of the respondents evaluate the new law amendments of the alternative family care positivly, they express their concerns on how it will succeed to bring the changes into practise. According to the respondents the NRP system is not ready enough by the personal, institutional and professional points of view. The practise wil show us if it will be succeeded to remove the obstacles and the current law amendment will ensure for the alternative family in the Czech Republic more suitable conditions for creating and preservation of the functioning family environment. By the social workers and even by the judges evoked questions concerning the foster care for a temporary period and informing the child about the adoption before entering the school rather stormy reactions. During the interviews another question related with this topic has arisen. Almost all of the respondents take for a serious problem the growing number of families with inconvinient property and economical conditions. These questions are more introduced in the discussion. The work has fulfiled its aim. It has pointed on the alternative family care problems and it has also pointed on many points which could be more analyzed in the thesis.
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Contact of biological families with children entrusted to foster care
DYTRICHOVÁ, Eva
The objective of the presented work has been to analyse the approach of foster parents administered by the Regional Authority of the South Bohemian Region to the implementation of the contacts of the children in their foster care with their biological families and to map out the contacts of children in foster care with their biological families. The first section of the study is focussed on a theoretical analysis of alternative family care and foster care in particular. The second section deals with the processing of questionnaires filled in by foster parents operating within the South Bohemian Region in the period from December 2008 to February 2009. The analysed data were processed under the use of the questionnaire technique. The set of respondents consisted both of foster parents for whom the foster care had been mediated by the Regional Authority of the South Bohemian Region, and of foster parents whose child had been placed into their pre-foster care as well as of foster parents who had acquired the status of foster parents as a result of their application filed with a court.
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