The aim of this study is to follow the development of the family archives Metternich, especially its genesis, methods of processing, the possibility to use and biographies of some personalities that are linked to his fate. The author attempts to achieve this goal in two ways. 1) a detailed analysis of developments in the family archives from its beginnings to the contemporary time based on the interpretation of sources regarding the development, organization, processing and retrieval, 2) by putting the fate of the family archive to the development of noble archives in Bohemia and in the framework of theoretical and methodological approach to the history of archives. The first part is devoted to analysis of foreign and domestic literature on the history of archives and in selected examples are characterized by methodological approaches to this issue, in the actual work once applied. The second part introduces the issue aristocratic family archives in Bohemia, the author examines gradually terminological issues, genetic (baseline development of this type of archives from the Middle Ages to the 20th century), ways of processing of family archives and personalities of their archivists. The author also discusses the role of the state in care for family archives, a separate excursion is a chapter on the...

The thesis deals with the concept of family conferences, which are a support tool for the functioning of families. The paper' s objective is to present information about the character, implementation and difficulties of the practice of family conferences. The text is divided into a theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part focuses on the topic of family, its functioning and possibilities of its support within the Czech system of social care. Furthermore, it provides information about the benefits and the process of family conferences. The research part presents and evaluates the research of documents presenting the reasons for the implementation of family conferences, its impact and development in New Zealand, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. The research part includes qualitative research carried out in the form of an interview. It provides information about some problem-solving processes in the families. The research findings suggest that we can benefit from experience from other countries during the implementation of family conferences in the Czech Republic and that the families involved in the research are inclined to solving complex situations by their own efforts. Key words: family, vulnerable family, family group conferences, empowerment, support

In my thesis I am concentrating on family policy in relation to families after divorce or separation. I am focusing on problems which single-parent families have to deal with. Specifically, I am analysing current forms of child custody of under-aged children after the divorce. I have examined circumstances which lead to award the custody of the child and risks of these arrangements. Every single form of child custody is enriched by a case study. In connection with maintenance obligation I have investigated latest political instruments which are used for maintenance order. Furthermore I have looked into newly emerging policy of the maintenance backup plan. The aim of the thesis was accomplished by desk research and primarily evaluation of data which I collected by qualitative research interview, concretely semi-structured interviews with experts in this field. Based on main theoretical ground my research I concluded that single-parent families are considered as group of "dependents". Another theory I have worked with in my thesis is the theory of material and psychological deprivation. Material deprivation is related to not paying maintenance by a parent. This is causing that single-parent families, typically single mothers, find themselves in suffer hardship which can endanger the life and...

This thesis is focused on the situation of women - mothers in the Czech labor market as a vulnerable population groups. The work comprehensively analyzes the current system of support for women on maternity leave and subsequent return to the labor market. The theoretical part provides basic concepts and institutions associated with the harmonization of work and family life of women. The analytical part is focused on the causes of insecure women, which are captured from different angles: women, employers, and experts such as sociologists and psychologists. The analysis also provides a comparison of the CR family policy with selected European countries. To better illustrate, the work included a survey that was conducted in the South Region by the questionnaire method. In conclusion this thesis, there are summarizes most important findings detected during processing of the topic.

The purpose of the present study was to find out variables that make first year university students vulnerable to eating disorders. Pathological eating attitudes&rsquo / association with height and weight, family meal patterns, perceived social support, family values and socio-demographic variables were assessed. 299 first year university students from the Department of Basic English at Middle East Technical University participated in the study. Five assessment devices- Demographic data form, the Eating Attitude Test (EAT&ndash / 40), Family Eating Attitude and Behavior Subscales, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Traditional Family Values Questionnaire were administered. ANOVAs were conducted to assess differences on eating attitudes between participants in terms of gender, with whom they lived, perceived family type, socio economic status, body mass index and weight satisfaction. Stepwise multiple regressions were conducted to appraise to what extent perceived social support, family meal patterns, traditional family values and demographic variables predicted eating attitudes of first year students. The participants who perceived their family as traditional reported more pathological eating attitudes in dieting, preoccupation with food, social pressure on weight factor. Regression analyses for female participants revealed that dieting, parents occupation, body mass index (current / desired) perceived social support- family, relationships with family and kin, and perceived family income were associated with pathological eating attitudes. Regression analyses for males revealed that dieting, father occupation, desired body mass index and relationships with family and kin were associated with pathological eating attitudes. These findings were discussed with reference to relevant literature. Future research topics were suggested and therapeutic implications of the study were discussed.

The development of a transgenerational orientation is one of the most significant challenges that family businesses face and only a small number actually survive across generations. While prior research has focused on the business unit to provide us with a solid understanding of how corporate governance affects business performance and continuity, the role of the business family in the development of a transgenerational orientation has received less attention. To address this gap, this article applies a new systems and social identity theory framework to examine how family governance and business family identity can contribute to strengthening the transgenerational orientation of the business. A transgenerational orientation is defined as a decision premise to maintain the family's control over the business across generations. Using a large data set, findings show that the presence of family governance measures and the business family's identity are positively related to a transgenerational orientation of the business, with business family identity acting as a mediator. Thus, the development of family governance measures can foster communication within the business family and enhance the family members' emotional investment in the business which strengthens the transgenerational orientation in the business. (author's abstract)

In later life, the death of a family member occurs most often after a challenging time of family caring. It denotes a dramatic event in families’ lives, and involves intense feelings for all. To date, bereavement has mainly been investigated as an intrapersonal process from the perspective of family carers or widow/ers. Little is known about families’ experience when an adult member has died. A review of pertinent literature located only six adult family bereavement studies, which exposed the importance of family cohesion, communication and emotion, and found that family characteristics denote the background from which families make sense of the death. Despite these insights, a dearth of research exists about families’ lived relational world after a death late in life. Such knowledge is needed to better grasp bereaved families’ life-world and to discern their capacities and adversities, which shape their support needs. The purpose of this hermeneutic-phenomenological inquiry was to disclose meaning patterns and practices of families living with the loss of a close other. It included ten bereaved community-dwelling families, represented by widow/ers (mean age 80y), adult children, in-laws and grandchildren (n=30). Family was defined as a situated, relational involvement by those who feel close, and living with loss was seen as a process of changing relationships. A combination of in-depth family group (n=21) and solo interviews (n=16) were held six to 23 months after the death, and field-notes were written. The thematic and narrative analysis, embedded in a hermeneutic movement, involved reading, reflecting, and writing about gleaned data, fore-understandings, and emerging insights. Findings revealed that families’ life with loss is a world shared, and a world apart. Families collectively looked back to weave the death into their family narrative, and in so doing, constructed a story of a good death, compared-contrasted it with other deaths and events, and situated it within their multi-generational family context. Families lived with their loss by sharing-not sharing interpretations and daily lives. They connected via remembering, talking, spend-ing time, and enacting presence, but they disconnected for a variety of reasons. Families moved forward by continuing or reconstructing their family being and doing. While some families faced upheaval, others continued with little change. These findings need to be seen as situated, temporal constructs of prolonged researcher-participant engagements. They yield insights into families’ world based on the accounts of ten traditional families. Even so, this study adds a much needed empirical family perspective on bereavement. Family relations arose as interplay of different, contradicting forces at play, which moved members together and apart in their daily lives with loss. As such, it supports family models that emphasize the multivocal, relational, contextual, and continuously shifting nature of family health. It revealed that families hold an inherent capacity to make meaning of the death and enact family thereafter, and understand their relationships as resource. Thus, families may not need professional therapeutic interventions to redress their “functioning” or to avert “adverse” outcomes, but health promoting and relationship-strengthening care and services. Nurses can be helpful to families by facilitating meaning-making, strengthening family relations in a way that values multiple voices at play, and by supporting family transition and caring in light of present concerns.

Thesis The economic and sociological view of the current family deals with the issue of the current situation of Czech families and comparing the differences between living conditions of childless couples and families. The main goal of this work is to determine whether these living conditions are improving and what is institutional support families in the Czech Republic. The first section explains the basic concepts associated with the topic. Furthermore, the observed evolution of the traditional family from prehistory to the 20th century. and the emergence of the modern family and its present form. The following chapter dealing with the economic view of the family , which is mainly based on the ideas of Gary S. Becker. The next part describes and evaluates the institutional support of the family in the Czech Republic. The last part deals with the comparative analysis of the living conditions of Czech families with children and couples without children, which monitors several years development based on data obtained from the CSO and the research on living conditions in the country.

This study sets out to understand the position of Turkish women in gendered jobs and jobs with different levels of prestige from the 1980s to the 2000s, and to compare this position to that of women in similar countries where possible. Although Turkish women's enrolment rates in traditionally male subjects in higher education is above the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average and despite the fact that they exceed their male counterparts in their graduation rates in most of the university subjects, this success is not reflected in the labour market. Turkish women are mostly trapped in female occupations with medium level of prestige and are particularly excluded from top-ranked jobs. This study argues that the vicious circle of society's expectations of women in the private sphere and the statistical discrimination based on the fulfilment of these expectations affect women's likelihood to be in these jobs negatively. While increasing educational level strongly improves women's position in male-dominated jobs (within 'professional, scientific and technical jobs' category in particular) and their prestige levels, evidence also shows that there is still a drastic lost potential in respect of highly qualified women's employment considering that still in 2010s, there is a remarkable proportion of highly educated women who are not in paid work. It is observed that in 2012, women expanded their attainment in relatively low-prestige jobs and increased their participation further in professional jobs in accordance with their rising higher educational attainment, yet still only 3% of working women are in managerial jobs (TurkStat, 2012). This implies that the prescribed gender roles that saddle women with the heavy burden in the private sphere, which also affect highly educated women's career trajectories, could even be more persisting than the influence of the traditional social structure on women's work that is expected to cause low qualified women to be represented at low rates in (less prestigious) jobs with non-traditional conditions. Considering that women withdraw from the labour market mostly due to marriage, and the findings show that marriage and having children have a negative impact on women's careers at large, attention should be focused on the private sphere. Looking at Turkish households, it is found that the gender segregation at work is reflected in the private sphere: women undertake the demanding traditionally female housework and while there are more potential sources of support for childcare compared to household chores, women's employment status and level of income also do not make a substantial difference in terms of the former also the unbalanced domestic division of labour unlike it is for the latter. Results demonstrate that Turkish men do not have a particularly traditional gender ideology regarding women's paid work. However, their lack of involvement in female chores creates a barrier for women's careers in a semi-direct pattern. The findings refer to the need for a faster increase in Turkish women's higher educational attainment and a stronger external support system via social policies at work and at home. It is also important to reinforce a more egalitarian gender ideology regarding men's roles as spouses and fathers as well as to promote the importance of women's different roles in private and public spheres, not only as wives and mothers but also as individuals, citizens and employers/employees.

Submitted by Cristiane Chim (cristiane.chim@ucpel.edu.br) on 2018-09-05T12:01:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sabrine Passos.pdf: 1270409 bytes, checksum: f633604c69c616cf39bfa95354d23431 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-05T12:01:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sabrine Passos.pdf: 1270409 bytes, checksum: f633604c69c616cf39bfa95354d23431 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-05 / The present study analyzed the use of Family Mediation and its relationship with Public Policy in the city of Pelotas. The study had four moments: in the introduction, we indicate the objectives and the motivations for the investigation of this theme. In the second moment, we discuss the constitution of contemporary families and their challenges, ranging from the historical aspects of family formation to the analysis of the importance of the State and Social Policies focused on the family. In the third, we treat Mediation as a way of access to justice, where the main concepts were approached; its use in other countries, as well as the importance of mediation as Public Policy in the perspective of Family Law. At the end, we locate the Comarca de Pelotas; the scope of the research; the data collected with the blog of the Judicial Center for Conflict Resolution and Citizenship (CEJUSC) and also the subjects of the research that were composed of mediators and a Magistrate of the same Region, as well as reflect the use of mediation in contemporary cases. The methodological paths adopted for this research were bibliographic, documentary and questionnaire application with open and closed questions analyzed under content analysis and organized into graphs. The subjects of the research were seven (7) mediators of CEJUSC and one (1) magistrate acting in cases of family mediation between August 2016 and August 2017 in the city of Pelotas. The results obtained through the investigation indicated the need to recognize family mediation as an instrument of Access to Justice and Public Policy, since it is not widely publicized and has no financial incentive from the State and the Court of Justice, nor from the of lawyers for its use, thus not preventing further prosecution. The survey found that Pelotas has two units of CEJUSC acting and the most recurring cases are linked to divorce, child support and child custody. However, there is a need for greater investment by the State to implement and recognize this Policy / A presente pesquisa analisou a utilização da Mediação Familiar e sua relação com a Política Pública na cidade de Pelotas. O estudo teve quatro momentos: na introdução, indicamos os objetivos e as motivações para a investigação dessa temática. No segundo momento, discorremos sobre a constituição das famílias contemporâneas e seus desafios que irão, desde os aspectos históricos sobre a formação das famílias, até a análise da importância do Estado e de Políticas Sociais focalizadas na família. No terceiro, tratamos a Mediação como via de acesso à justiça, onde se abordou os principais conceitos; sua utilização noutros países, bem como a importância da mediação como Política Pública na perspectiva do Direito de Família. Ao final, situamos a Comarca de Pelotas; o âmbito de abrangência da pesquisa; os dados coletados junto ao blog do Centro Judiciário de Solução de Conflitos e Cidadania (CEJUSC) e também aos sujeitos da pesquisa que foram compostos de mediadores e um Magistrado da mesma Comarca, bem como refletimos o uso da mediação nos casos contemporâneos. Os caminhos metodológicos adotados para esta pesquisa foram levantamento bibliográfico, documental e aplicação de questionário com perguntas abertas e fechadas analisadas sob análise de conteúdo e organizadas em gráficos. Os sujeitos da pesquisa foram sete (7) mediadores do CEJUSC e um (1) magistrado atuantes nos casos de mediação familiar entre agosto de 2016 a agosto 2017 na cidade de Pelotas. Os resultados obtidos através da investigação indicaram a necessidade do reconhecimento da mediação familiar como um instrumento de Acesso à Justiça e Política Pública, pois o mesmo é pouco divulgado e não possui incentivo financeiro por parte do Estado e do Tribunal de Justiça, e tampouco por parte dos advogados para a sua utilização, não evitando, consequentemente, que mais processos sejam judicializados. A pesquisa constatou que Pelotas possui duas unidades do CEJUSC atuantes e os casos mais recorrentes estão ligados ao divórcio, pensão alimentícia e guarda de filhos. Contudo, há necessidade de maior investimento por parte do Estado para efetivação e reconhecimento desta Política.