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Contacts of a Child in Foster Care with a Child's Biological Family
MARKOVÁ, Lucie
The diploma thesis deals with contacts of a child in foster care with a child's biological family. The aim of this work was to map the experiences of children in foster care with contacts with biological family. The diploma thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is focused on approaching the system of surrogate family care, further explains the differences between partial forms of surrogate family care. Attention is paid to the experiencing of children, child's identity and also to the subject of attachment. The work deals in detail with the biological family of a child in foster care and their subsequent contacts as one of the main topics. The practical part follows the qualitative processing of narrative interviews, where the effort is to describe how children in long-term foster care experience contact with a biological family. The work is focused on the experience of a child in foster care with contacts with a biological family from the perspective of nine young people growing up in a foster family who formed the research set. The method of simple intentional selection and the snowball method were used to select the participants. The obtained data were evaluated using the cluster method. The research showed 7 clusters common in the participants' statements. These are the following clusters: the child's contact with the biological family; obtaining information about the biological family; feelings connected with contact; child's attitude to the biological parent (relatives); foster parents' reaction to the contact; child-foster relationship; current view of the contact. Each participant looks at the course of contacts with the biological family individually, but the results of the research have shown that there are situations that informants and informatics have in common. For example, the desire to get to know their biological parents, although individuals need time to process the obtained information about the biological family before contacting the biological family. The thesis will help to raise awareness about foster care and may be useful for future foster parents.
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Foster care for a temporary period - financial aspects as motivation
KUČERKOVÁ, Helena
The thesis deals with the topic of temporary foster care and with the motivation for becoming a temporary foster parent. In the beginning the temporary foster care is introduced as a substitute form of the parental care in Czech republic. The theoretical chapters inform about the matter of this institute, about its financial support and the situation in the Pilsen Region. The next part briefly explains the term of the motivation and focuses on the motivation of foster parents for a temporary period. The theoretical findings are supplemented by the results of the qualitative research which was realized in the form of semi structured conversations with four foster parents and two workers of the substitutional care from the Pilsen Region. The research focused on the foster parent´s motivation and the role of financial motivation in making decision to become a foster parent.
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Experiencing the Transformation of the Caregivers' Role in Foster Care
KÁROVÁ, Ilona
The subject of the presented thesis focuses on foster care exercised by children´s relatives. The target is to ascertain possible different roles in kinship foster care and different attitudes to the aforementioned, record the experience of kinship care givers, their viewing and experiencing of childcare. I wanted to know if fostering had brought any positives into their lives and on the other hand if there are any negatives related to such care. The theoretic part of my thesis describes the history of foster care in different periods, explains the terms like family, social role and attachment. Furthermore, particular forms of foster care are explained and foster care exercised by children´s relatives is described in more details. Attention is also paid to the relationship and contact between a child and his/her parents. The Authority for social and legal protection of children (OSPOD in Czech) has an essential role in foster care together with assisting organizations, which are described in the last chapter of the theoretic part. I used qualitative methodology for research purposes and semi-structured interviews for collection of data. The research file contained eight respondents which were selected based on simple purpuseful sampling. The research file consisted of foster parents caring for children of their relatives. I determined reasons why the children had been placed into foster care, how the foster parents experience such care and how they view it themselves. The results of the interview analysis helped me to uncover and understand the basis of kinship foster care. According to similar signs, they were divided into several areas. The first area focused on the reasons why the child had been placed into kinship foster care. The main reasons included various types of addictions, child neglect, failure to provide suitable housing or lack of interest in the child. The second area related to the feelings of foster mothers when accepting the child. Their decision-making process is described here, including their motivation and fears related to fostering. In most cases, foster mothers had enough time for making their decisions on fostering. Half of the foster mothers found it natural; the other half had ambivalent feelings for it. The third area is dedicated to changes in wider personal relationships and relationships in the family, in particular, to the impact of foster care on relations between partners and the potential influence on the relationship of foster parents with their own children. Relations with biologic children of the foster parents had an important role as well. The fourth area includes basic characteristics of childcare. Most foster mothers noticed significant changes in their lives. Foster care had a negative impact on the quality of their lives but it principally became a source of vitality and optimism for them. Foster mothers faced problem situations related to intergenerational differences, behaviour of children and problems at school. They also worried often about the future of their foster children. Some foster mothers accepted the role of a mother that predominated over their other life roles. Others had no problems in separating their roles and shifting from one role to another. Most conflicts in the role appeared when the child was fostered by his/her grandmother. The last area contains conditions that have helped foster mothers to reduce the burden of foster care. Foster mothers appreciated help of their families, which they preferred, and sufficient financial security. They gladly accepted the help of assisting organizations and the services offered by them. Mandatory education and the possibility to share their experience with other foster parents were of great importance too.
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The New Trends in Foster Care
Čápová, Tereza ; Krahulcová, Beáta (advisor) ; Ondrušová, Jiřina (referee)
1 Abstract I wrote my thesis on "The New Trends in Foster Care". My work aimed to find out the opinions of foster parents on the chase of the alternative family care system which was formed by the amendment of the Act on social and legal protection of children in 2013. In the theoretical part, I was dealing with the changes that occurred in the amendment, I characterized variol forms of alternative family care and I described the preparation of foster parents and applicants. In the practical part, I described a survey which, after the evaluation, pointed out to the issue of foster care after its amendment in 2013, from the point of view of foster parents. By this survey the information on satisfaction with changes to the current alternative family care system, on the need for foster care for a transitional period, and also information on co-operation with social workers was received.
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Adaptation of children growing up in foster care in pre-school facilities
JIRÁSKOVÁ, Zdislava
This bachelor thesis describes how children growing up in foster care adapt to preschool facilities. It tries to answer the question if this process is different for children living with their biological families and if it is beneficial for the child from foster care to integrate with its peers. It also focuses on the approach of preschool teachers to this issue, their openness, knowledge of the issue and their readiness to integrate these children with the rest of the class. The theoretical part deals with the notion of adaptation and substitute family care. During the research, three in-depth interviews were conducted. In the practical part, the most important segments of the interview, that were included, largely answer the research questions. These segments were completed by my own comments supported publications on this topic. The results of the thesis showed that the adaptation is such an individual process that we cannot generalize the process of adaptation of children from foster care. However, all the participants in this study agreed that children from foster care show specific behavior and that their integration with their peers is beneficial. Research also showed that the approach of the teachers is fervent and almost always professional.
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Impact of legislative changes for implementation of forster care for temporary period
Nedbalová, Amálie ; Šotolová, Eva (advisor) ; Mlčková, Marie (referee)
This thesis studies the latest form of substitute family care in the Czech Republic - foster care for a temporary period (FCTP). The introductory chapters focus on the entire socio-legal protection of children in the Czech Republic.After this general background information follows an introduction of the FCPT institute, legislated in Act No 359/1999, and its distinctness from foster care and other forms of substitute family care often interchanged with FCPT. The description is not limited to the current state but contains selected key changes brought by the amendments to this act in 2006 and 2013. Further sources are the Civil Code from 2012 and the limited professional literature concerning this topic. Hence, the thesis also uses material available on the internet and the findings are extended by the personal experience of the author and other FCPT parents (with the realization of FCPT). Besides analyzing the current legislation for FCPT, the thesis also studies the development of FCPT and the problematics of preparing applicants for substitute family care. One chapter is devoted to two specific cases of children eligible for FCPT - child of a minor and child of a foreigner. The aim of this thesis is to provide a basic overview of the entire problematics, terming possible difficulties and risks...
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Rights and responsibilities of fosterparents
Borecká, Martina ; Hendrychová, Michaela (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich vor allem mit dem Thema der Pflegschaft, sowie mit den anderen Formen der Pflege um das Kind. In der Arbeit werden die Entwicklung und die rechtliche Regelung der Pflegschaft behandelt. Die Entstehung der Pflegeförderung tritt auf, wenn die leiblichen Eltern gehindert sind, sich um ihr eigenes Kind kümmern zu können. Diese Hindernisse können kurzfristiger oder dauerhafter Natur sein. Die Pflegschaft kann in die individuelle Pflege und Gruppenpflege unterteilt werden. Ein Beispiel für die Gruppenpflege sind die SOS-Kinderdörfer. Wenn das Kind einer fremden Person anvertraut wird, steht am Anfang des ganzen Prozesses die Eintragung des Antragstellers in das Register, weiter folgt die Phase der Vorbereitung und dann die Vermittlung der Pflege. Die Rechte und Pflichten der Pflegeeltern sind durch das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch und durch das Gesetz über den Sozial- rechtlichen Schutz des Kindes bestimmt. Die Grundpflicht der Pflegeeltern sowie ihr Grundrecht bestehen darin, sich um das Kind so persönlich zu kümmern, dass es sich gut entwickelt. Die Pflegeeltern sind dazu verpflichtet, die leiblichen Eltern über die Entwicklung des Kindes zu informieren, denn über alle wesentlichen Dinge wird von den leiblichen Eltern entschieden, beziehungsweise, wenn das Kind kein Elternteil hat, vom...
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Kinship care from the view of care givers
Krajtlová, Kristýna ; Pazlarová, Hana (advisor) ; Matoušek, Oldřich (referee)
The diploma thesis discusses the issue of kinship foster care, its specifics, strengths and weaknesses. It examines the views of grandparents, aunties, uncles and other relatives on their role in foster care and the children's life. The theoretical part is focused on basic topics in foster care, views on foster care and the development of children living in foster care. The practical part of the thesis is focused on semi-structured interviews with care givers which should tell us facts about their views of foster care, why children are placed in their family, practical problems and help which they need. There are also casuistries of foster care families.
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