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Possibilities of increasing interest in foster care in the Czech Republic
Hadrbolcová, Žaneta ; Angelovská, Olga (advisor) ; Vlčková, Kamila (referee)
For most people, family represents a place where they feel safe and loved. But not everyone is lucky enough to have a place like this, to have a functional family. If the biological family does not work as it should and a baby is threatened in some way, the state has several options to help the child. If there are solvable problems in the family, the state can try to help it by various interventions to improve the situation. But if these actions do not help and the child is forced to leave this family, it is necessary to ensure alternative environment for baby. The child can either be placed in institutional care, or to substitutional family care. Considering the shortcomings of institutional care, various forms of substitutional care are mainly supported. Probably the best known form of substitutional care is adoption. In the case of adoption, baby becomes the member of new family and relationships between child and his biological family vanishes. This form is only possible for a small percentage of abandoned children, because most of them still has some kind of relationship with biological family. For these children, there is an alternative, namely foster care. In the case of foster care, child grows up in a foster family, foster parents care for him every day, but the child still has a...
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The Comparison of the Foster Care in the Czech Republic with Selected European Countries
ALINOVÁ, Šárka
This bachelor thesis deals with the system of foster care in the Czech Republic, Norway, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom and is divided into four chapters. The first part describes foster care in the Czech Republic. It also discusses the importance of the family for the child and particular forms of foster care. The second chapter concentrates on the functioning of the system of foster care and professional foster care. The third chapter presents the foster care across selected countries and final chapter provides an analysis of all these systems of foster care in the Czech Republic, Norway, Austria, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. The main objective is to compare and evaluate these systems and to propose measures that would improve the foster care in the Czech Republic.
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