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Financial support for families in the new Europe. Using the Model family method.
Mitchell, Eva ; Hamplová, Dana (advisor) ; Klímová Chaloupková, Jana (referee) ; Šťastná, Anna (referee)
Dissertation explores the structure and level of financial support addressed to families with children in the Czech Republic and 19 other European countries as of December 2008. Attention is paid primarily to the "new" European countries, i.e. the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Through analysis of tax-benefit system this study examines where the Czech Republic stands in respect of family support within the European context and assesses which European policy is most similar to the Czech model of financial family support. There are two main parts. First one introduces the welfare state and family policy typologies and theories. Second one uses the model family method to answer the following questions: Which kind of family composition benefits most from the state support? Does the Czech tax- benefit system prioritize the traditional male-breadwinner family or does it encourage the dual-earner model? What is the position of Czech lone-parent families in comparison to other European countries? Is the Czech family policy aimed at the same types of family with children as is the Slovakian family policy or any other state policy in CEE? Are these two countries still following the same trend in respect to the financial family support? And where do the new European countries fit within the existing...
Harmonization of work and family life for single mothers
Žáčková, Karla ; Dobiášová, Karolína (advisor) ; Kotrusová, Miriam (referee)
This thesis focuses on the harmonization of work and family life of single mothers with preschool children. Due to the many changes in family behavior which also leads to the increasing numbers of single-parent families and due to hte fact that in the vast majority of single-parent families constitute a mother living with at least one minor child, this thesis deals with single mothers. The harmonization of work and child care is also different for mothers with preschool or school age child. Considering this fact and the problems with giving children to nursery schools this thesis pursues only single mothers with preschool age child. In the thesis there are used three theoretiocal basis which are feminization of poverty, child poverty and the theory of family economics. Through these theoretical basis this thesis describes the changes in family behavior, legal framework of single parenting and problems associated with single parenting, as well as the instruments for support of harmonization of work and family life. To achieve these objectives secondery data was used. The work also examines the strategies of single mothers and their difficulties at harmonization of work and child care, for which was used primary data from qualitative research. For single mothers harmonizing work and child care is...

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