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Deciding on alternate care
Krejčí, Simona ; Janoušková, Anežka (advisor) ; Dvořák, Jan (referee)
Deciding on alternate care Abstract The aim of my master thesis on the topic "Deciding on alternate care" is to analyse the decision- making of courts and the criteria that influence the assignment of a child to alternate care in the Czech Republic. The aim is not only to assess to what extent these factors and criteria are in the interest of the child, but also to what extent they must be fulfilled in order for this institution to be used with regard to the needs of the children themselves. At the same time, I also discuss the biggest problems that accompany alternate care. This thesis is divided into seven parts. In the first part, I define the basic concepts related to alternate care and also discuss the forms of post-divorce child care. The forms of post- divorce care are sole custody of one parent, joint custody, alternate custody and entrustment to another person. In the second part I describe the development of alternate care in the Czech Republic. In the third part, I focus on selected case law of the Constitutional Court, which specifically concerns alternate care and its pitfalls. The case law of the Constitutional Court is very important in this respect. In the fourth part, I describe in depth the so-called four-stage test of suitability, which was formulated by the Constitutional Court in order...
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The alternate care in the families with a history of domestic violence
Chábová, Tereza ; Davidová, Ivana (advisor) ; Kodymová, Pavla (referee)
The theme of this bachelor's thesis is the issue of joint custody in a context of problems of families with a history of domestic violence. The theoretical part describes the main characteristics of joint custody, the conditions for its court order and the basic legislative frameworks on which it's based. Attention is also paid to the proponents or opponents of this form of child care in the post-divorce period. The reader is introduced to the specifics of domestic violence, its dynamics and impact on a child in a family. In the end of the theoretical part are described some of the forms of possible solutions that the existence of domestice violence in conjuction with the joint custody requires. The practical part deals with case studies of families with a history of domestic violence in which was applied the joint custody on the basis of a court decision.
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The dilemma of a social worker in connection with the proposed alternate care for minor
KUBÁTOVÁ, Renata
In the theoretical part, there I devote to the family itself, what are its functions, further I deal with a marriage and parenthood. In the next chapter I explain the divorce with minor children, causes of the divorce rate and the children´s reactions to the divorce. This is followed by a chapter on the social worker dealing with the children´s social and legal protection, his roles and competences, which dilemmas he encounters during his work. Last but not least I deal with the mutual and alternate care. What are prerequisites of the successful alternate care, its advantages and disadvantages. I chose a technique of a semi-structured interview for the qualitative research. There is a minimum of topics and questions that the interviewer must discuss. These basic topics and interviews then are attached by various other additional topics that the interviewer seemed to be meaningful or suitable to an extension of the original assignment. Data obtained through the interview I worked out using the coding. The research sample has been represented by the department of the children´s social and legal protection. This department belongs under the department of social affairs in municipalities with extended powers. Specifically, they were social workers of this department who I gained all the necessary information for the research from. The aim of this thesis was to describe the dilemmas of the social worker in the area of the social work in connection with the decision on the alternate care for the minor child. The research showed that there still prevails the number of children, who are placed by the court in the sole custody of mothers in the Czech Republic. It more often happens, that children´s fathers who were for the alternate care at the beginning, after a certain time revise their opinions and decide to leave the education of the children to their mothers. Regarding the dilemmas of the social workers dealing with the children´s social and legal protection, there are situations which occur more and more. These are especially situations when parents cannot agree on any rules on which the alternate care could run smoothly. In those above mentioned situations the child is placed in the sole custody to one of the parents. The everyday problem of the social workers is a large number of clients. The main reason for this is a growing number of divorces. To be able to cope with so many clients, all leads to the fact that the social workers are forced to reduce their time, energy, but also their attention which is to be paid to individual clients. Specifically in České Budějovice, the social workers from the department of the children´s social and legal protection lead only very few consultations with their clients directly in their office. It is especially due to the lack of their time, because they more often go to investigate a particular family on demand of the court. Many social workers meet the fact that the family wants to realize the alternate care, but for the reason of the non-cooperation of the both parents most of the alternate cares come to an end. As for the forms of the alternate care, most families realize a week alternate care. Mainly it is at the primary school-age children for the reason that the children are small and after a short time they miss the other parent. A 14-day alternate care is realized at the older children. They usually dislike their permanent moving from one parent to the other. A contribution of this thesis is to provide a topic for the social workers dealing with the children´s social and legal protection, to use it in their own practice in connection with the alternate care. Finally, the results can be used for an evaluation of the social workers´ approach to the families wishing to realize the alternate care.
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The care of a child after a divorce in terms of the alternate care
BOČKAYOVÁ, Jitka
An alternate care of children after a divorce or parent´s separation is not only in Czech Republic still more common. Although it appears less than other models of child care, the number of split up families with this kind of care increase every year. The thesis analyses model of alternate child care. The theoretical part outlines kinds of child care models after parent´s separation. The development of divorce rate and children entrust in the world and Europe is presented in the thesis. Further, there are shown consequences of parent´s separating for the child with emphasize of gender irreplaceability of parent´s roles. The thesis describes potential influence of parent´s separating for the child in short term and long term period and points at negative consequences for the child if one parent doesn´t get involved in child´s life. The thesis occupies with assumptions of running an alternate care, its positives and negatives for kids and their parents. The aim of research part is to discuss different views at alternate care of parents, who practise alternate care and experts like psychologists and psychotherapists, who deal with alternate care in their professional experience. The main research query was to look into the parent´s view at positives and negatives of model of alternate child care for their children. The issue of alternate care is analysed through qualitative research with method of halfstructured interviews with opened questions. Connections among certain phenomenons occuring at alternate care are monitored. The results of research of both research groups show, that alternate care is, supposing keeping certain conditions, mostly positively accepted.
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The attitude of the public to foster care
NESNÍDALOVÁ, Klára
My thesis deals with the attitude of public to foster care. One of the paradoxical issues is the fact that the number of children who are not reared by their biological parents remains quite high while the number of childless partnerships (though desiring offspring) is growing. In the Czech Republic, similarly as in other European countries, about 1% of children (about 20,000) do not grow up in their biological families. Only 2% of that group are full orphans. The remaining 98% of children have living biological parents who do not or cannot take care of them. I endeavored to find out how well individual members of the Czech society are informed about one of the possible solutions of infertility: alternate family care. Using questionnaires, I focused on several age and level of education groups and asked general as well as more personal questions. In the general part, I wanted to find out whether the individual knew what alternate family care was, the different kinds of alternate family care, who provides support during the process, what are the different options, the difference between adoption and foster care, etc. Then I inquired about their own willingness to take in a child, whether sex of the child, somatic and intellectual predisposition were criteria for them and whether they would take in a child of a different ethnicity. It is interesting to note that women are usually more prone to blame themselves for infertility.
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