There are ideas that cities today compete in a global market in terms of investments, tourism and residents. This competition is based on the notion that cities' opportunity for development is dependent on human capital and financial flows. Which is seen as a limited resource; thus, the competition prevails. Providing well-planned and attractive meeting places in the city's public spaces is not only an important part of the cities' quest for growth but is also important for the social community. The public space acts as a space for individuals and groups where meetings can take place, dialogues can be conducted and ideas can be exchanged. The aim of this study was to investigate how families with children as a community group use and experience Umeå citycenter as a public space, and in what way they think the room could be made more attractive. To fulfil this studies purpose, a literature review has been carried out, in order to create an understanding of the concept of public space, meeting place and accessibility. Then a qualitative interview methodology has been utilized, where 14 families with children have been interviewed. The analysis of the study's theoretical framework and empirical evidence shows that Umeå's citycenter is characterized by a number of qualities. Among many of the families with children interviewed, the supply and resources are the primary cause of visiting the center. While a couple of the interviewed families with children mean that the place and the public environment are the strongest reasons for visiting the center. Based on the respondents' thoughts and opinions about the public space, it appears that accessibility and the range of activities have a huge influence on how the room is used and how the environment is perceived. In summary, the respondents gave a picture of the public space being of great importance for both individuals, different social groups and for the whole of society.

The aim of this work is to analyze the current state of tourism development for the target group family with children. The analysis was first made on the basis of Mystery shopping, controlled interviews, and a proposal of a suitable solution for the target group of families with children was made based on the data.

This work is engaged in analysis of offer of travel operators for families with children and in after evaluation. In the first part of the work there are mentioned some terms from tourism sphere. There is also defined term tourism operator from legislative point of view. Next part is dedicated to matketing in the area of services. Families with childern present important part of demand in tourism sphere. This work analyses their wishes and needs. In analytical part of work there is researched offer for families with children in domestical and foreign tourism. At first the attention is dedicated to accomodation facilities, then the offer of travel operators is researched. Work presents sales programmes of travel operators and analyses holiday clubs for childern. The final part evaluates the quality and quantity of offered facilities.

Material welfare of families with children Abstract Material welfare of families with children is a topic which is encounter most of us in our life, whether in the position of a child or parent. Many families find themselves in a situation where they are virtually dependent on social security benefits. The objective of the thesis is to introduce the basic systems from which these benefits are provided. It is a social insurance system, state social support and social assistance. Furthermore, the thesis focuses on helping foster carers. My thesis is divided into several parts, each of them focuses on a particular area of social security of families with children. The first of these systems is social insurance, which is based on the insurance principle, a prerequisite for the entitlement is participate to insurance. Social insurance can be further subdivided into sickness and pension insurance. The second of the presented systems is state social support, which is aimed at helping families with dependent children. The benefits of this system are divided into two parts - tested and untested, depending on whether the entitlement to benefit is reliant on family income or not. The third system is social assistance, which is the representative of the so-called last social protection rescue network. It focuses...

The dissertation has for its goal to analyse the supply of animation services by selected travel agencies for a families-with-children segment of customers in the Czech Republic. Based on a comparison of the supply together with a research into the actual situation on the side of the demand, a new competitive product of an animation service devised by the author is introduced. The theoretical part of the dissertation defines major terms in the realm of tourism and animation services. Throughout the empirical chapters, the author first analyses the market situation from the supply perspective. Second, using a method of a questionnaire survey, the market situation from the demand perspective is investigated. The last chapter deals with a creation of a new competitive product of animation services for families with children, implementing the findings from previous chapters.

Welfare of Women during Pregnancy and Maternity This thesis concernes welfare of pregnant women and women on maternity leave as well as other protection forms of families with children. The theme of this thesis was chosen due to importace of family for the whole society and because it is a often discussed topic, which is related to demografic development of society. The thesis constitutes of five chapters. The first chapter concerns historical development of social protection of pregnant women and women on maternity leave in Czech republic. Legal form of social protection of pregnant women and mothers is closely analyzed within the period of socialism. Second chapter focuses on influence of some international organisations on national systems of social protection of pregnant women and women on maternity leave. Third chapter considers theoretical questions of supporting families with children. Fourth chapter is focused on welfare of pregnant women and women on maternity leave itself. Fifth chapter complements the thesis with labour-law protection of pregnant women and of women taking care of small children. Sixth chapter outlines functioning of family policy in selected European states: in Great Britain, Germany, Sweden and in Italy. Conclusion sums up the received knowledge. The thesis describes...

The purpose of submitted thesis "Securing of families with children in Czech republic and selected European countries" is to analyze securing systems in Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and France, compare them, try to find some common points between them and discussed the possibility of using some interesting elements of French system in the Czech Republic. The thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter one is subdivided into three parts. Part one defines family, family politics and models of family politics. Part two deals with European context of securing families with children and the third part focuses on the most important international organizations with the impact on families with children. Chapter Two describes securing of families with children in Czech Republic via three systems (insurance system, state social support and social assistance) for people in diverse circumstances of need (disease, old age, child birth, death,...). The emphasis lays on description of state social support based on solidarity principle (between high- income families and low income families and between families with children and childless families) and its family benefits. Analogically chapters three and four are devoted to securing systems of Slovak republic and France, their tools, their systems of social...

Bakgrund: I dagens teknologisamhälle blir det allt svårare för företag att nå ut till sina presumtiva kunder då de utsätts med massvis av budskap. För att nå sina kunder kan företag förmedla budskap genom kommunikationskanaler som har olika egenskaper. Kommunikationskanalerna kan delas in i traditionella och moderna kommunikationskanaler. Olika egenskaper hos kommunikationskanalerna föredras hos olika individer. Barnfamiljer utgör en betydande del av livsmedelskonsumtionen då de inhandlar mer matvaror än resterande familjesammansättningar. Därmed så blir denna målgrupp en central målgrupp för matvarubutiker. Med avseende på detta krävs det mer ingående kunskap från matvarubutikens perspektiv för att tillämpa rätt kommunikationskanal för att nå målgruppen barnfamiljer, på ett sätt som föredras av målgruppen. Syfte: Att utreda vilken/ vilka av de moderna och/eller de traditionella kommunikationskanalerna som målgruppen barnfamiljer påstår att de föredrar från en matvarubutik, när ett attraktivt budskap förmedlas. Referensram: Uppsatsen utgår från teorier som kommunikationsprocessen, generella skillnader i de moderna och traditionella kommunikationskanalerna och kommunikationsriktningar. Vidare baseras den teoretiska referensramen på tidigare publicerade vetenskapliga artiklar. Metod: Uppsatsen metodologiska ansats bygger på en kvantitativ metod och det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom en kvantitativ enkätundersökning. Resultat: Resultatet för undersökningen visar att kommunikationskanalen e-mail föredras av målgruppen. E-mail hade en överlägset hög procentuell andel i jämförelse med de resterande kommunikationskanalerna som ingick i enkätundersökningen. Vidare kunde också resultatet påvisa att de moderna kommunikationskanalerna föredras framför de traditionella kommunikationskanalerna. / Background: In today's society, it becomes increasingly difficult for companies to reach their prospective customers. In order to reach their customers, companies can convey messages through communication channels that have varying characteristics. Communication channels can be divided into traditional and modern communication channels. Different characteristics of the communication channels are preferred by different individuals. Families with children constitutes a significant part of the consumption of food as they purchase fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) to a greater extent than the remaining family constellations. As a result, this target group becomes a key target for food retailers. In this regard, more thorough knowledge from the food store's perspective is required to apply the right communication channel to reach the target families with children, in a manner preferred by the target audience. Purpose: To investigate which of the modern and/ or traditional communication channels, families with children prefer from a food store when an attractive message is conveyed. Reference Framework: The essay is based on theories such as the communication process, general differences for the modern and traditional communication channels and communication direction. Furthermore, the theoretical frame of reference is based on previously studied material from scientific articles. Method: The methodological approach is based on a quantitative method and the empirical material has been collected through a quantitative questionnaire survey. Result: The results of the survey show that the preferred communication channel for the target audience is e-mail. E-mail had a high percentage share compared to the remaining communication channels that were included in the survey. Furthermore, the results suggest that modern communication channels are preferred to traditional communication channels.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-10-19T12:01:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana de Oliveira Farias.pdf: 2182555 bytes, checksum: 20bafd04331484f021466b577eec7bbd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-10-19T12:01:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mariana de Oliveira Farias.pdf: 2182555 bytes, checksum: 20bafd04331484f021466b577eec7bbd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Homophobia is still alive in our society and sustains itself by the heteronormativity that orders what would be considered ideal and expected in the affective-sexual relations and in the gender relation as well. The ideal affective-sexual relation considered is the heterosexual monogamous marriage with children. The Christianism and later, the Science validated a heteronormativity. According to this, there are many myths related to the homosexuality and, consequently, for the homosexual families with children, sustained critics related to the well-being of children and teenagers who live with these families. On the other hand, there are critics in relation to the homosexual people who are looking for a marriage and also desire kids in their relation; this , for some authors, would correspond to a reproduction of actual hegemonical rules. According to this, the present study search for describing and understanding the experience and living for lesbian mothers, gay fathers and their children as active authors from this research about their familiar configuration, the familiar relationship and their relations with the society. Twelve couples (seven male couples and five female couples) and their children participated into this research. They are from Ceará, São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro states. Twenty-three children and teenagers, from 5 to 18 years old, were interviewed; all of them attend to the regular school program. The method, which was used in this research, was the Grounded Theory and, as a complementary method to data dealing, the analysis of the content. The results showed that the familiar conception, according to the fathers, the mothers or the children, are related to the affective feelings and its quality into the established relation. The children showed that there are affection and happiness into their relation with the families. Therefore, the homophobia, the racial prejudice, in relation to some children, and the adoption prejudice permeate the relation between these families and the society. The schools seem not to be prepared to deal with the familiar and sexual diversity, in spite of some institutions try to receive the members of these families. Many mothers and fathers describe the importance of the visibility and representativity of homosexuality and homoaffective families with children in the broadcast midia, as well as the participation of LGBT social movement, in the associations or groups related to the LGBT issues or adoptions. The results of this study show that the members from the interviewed families, in spite of sometimes, reproduced values considered traditional and heteronormative, transform the social order from the affection valorization and also from the socio-affective feeling into the familiar relation to the detriment of biological relation and from the expectatives of antagonic gender from the partners. The present study showed itself essential against the scarcity of empiric Brazilian studies about this thematic / A homofobia ainda é muito presente em nossa sociedade e sustenta-se a partir da heteronormatividade que rege as normas do que seria considerado ideal e esperado nas relações afetivo-sexuais e nas relações de gênero. O modelo de relação afetivo-sexual considerado ideal é o casamento heterossexual, monogâmico e com filhos: elementos que ditam a família padrão. O cristianismo e, posteriormente, a ciência, validou a heteronormatividade. Diante disso, percebemos que existem mitos a respeito da homossexualidade e, consequentemente, das famílias homoafetivas com filhos(as), sustentando críticas em relação ao bem estar de crianças e adolescentes que convivem nestas famílias. Por outro lado, há, também, questionamentos em relação às pessoas homossexuais buscarem o casamento e terem o desejo de ter filhos, o que, para alguns autores, corresponderia a uma reprodução das normas hegemônicas O estudo buscou descrever e compreender as vivências e experiências de mães lésbicas, pais gays e filhos(as) como atores ativos desta pesquisa sobre sua configuração familiar, a relação na família e desta com a sociedade. Participaram doze casais, sete masculinos e cinco femininos, e seus filhos(as), residentes nos estados do Ceará, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro. Foram entrevistadas vinte e três crianças e adolescentes, de 5 a 18 anos, todos frequentando a escola. O método utilizado foi a Grounded Theory, tendo como complementar, para tratamento dos dados, a análise de conteúdo. Os resultados indicaram que a concepção de família, tanto por parte dos pais e mães, quanto dos(as) filhos(as) tende a se basear nos laços socioafetivos e na qualidade afetiva das relações estabelecidas. Os filhos mencionaram haver afeto e felicidade na relação com a família, no entanto, a homofobia, o preconceito racial em relação a alguns filhos(as) e o preconceito da adoção permeiam as relações com a sociedade. A escola parece ainda despreparada para lidar com a diversidade sexual e familiar, apesar de algumas instituições acolherem os membros destas famílias. Muitos pais e mães relataram a importância da visibilidade e representatividade da homossexualidade e das famílias homoafetivas com filhos na mídia, bem como a importância da participação no movimento social LGBT, em associações ou grupos de apoio relacionados à temática LGBT ou à adoção. O estudo mostra que os membros das famílias entrevistadas, apesar de algumas vezes reproduzirem valores considerados tradicionais e heteronormativos, transformam a ordem social a partir da valorização do afeto e dos laços socioafetivos nas relações familiares, em detrimento dos laços biológicos e das expectativas de gênero antagônicas dos(as) parceiros(as). O estudo contribui para uma maior compreensão e aprofundamento da temática em questão, haja vista o reduzido número de trabalhos empíricos existentes no Brasil

The development of the birth rate and preschool education in the Czech Republic after 1950 Abstract The main aim of the thesis is to map in detail the development of preschool education and financial support for families with children in the Czech Republic in the context of the development of birth rate after 1950. The development of birth rate in the thesis is not only analyzed by using basic indicators, but also through deeper decomposition methods. It turns out, that quality and availability of all network preschool institutions in the context has a certain role in the birth rate. The reconciliation of work and family is very important for lots of parents and sufficient offer of preschool care can help it. However, the demand for preschool institutions exceeded supply, as was shown in accordance with obtained data. It was also found out by the insight into the outcomes of surveys that the vast majority of respondents do not think that a preschool child of working mother would be suffering. In the future, should not only expand the capacity of childcare facilities as well as other options for facilitation of reconciling work and family life, such as better offer of flexible working hours. Keywords: birth rate, decomposition, preschool facilities, financial support for families with children, surveys,...