The diploma work processes the present issues if it is important or even necessary keeping the institutional care for the children under 3 years of age or if it can be replaced by short term foster care. The research was done by quantitative strategy and with the method of forms. The forms were addressed to fosters [short term and long term fosters] and to the child care institutions for children under 3 years of age under the direction of Ministry of Health. The data from ÚZIS also served the research these data confirm that about 85% of children return to their own or substitute families. The return to biological families did not go under 50% between 2011 and 2015. The inquiry also revealed the different view on the issue of short term foster care where fosters [long and short time] prefer the short time foster care method, while the child care institutions for children under 3 years of age under the direction of Ministry of Health mention the risks connected with the foster [short term] deficiency. The work also shows the problem that short time foster care is not convenient for disabled children and children from different ethnic groups, the institutions see a big problem in this too. The ways how the children are distributed into substitute family care are also connected with above mention. The children come to short time foster care generally from social issues and to institutional care mostly from health-social issues. The fosters themselves mention the situations when they would fear doing the care. These situations mostly correspond with the cases of children placed to the institutions with special care. Finally it is obvious the short time foster care and the institutional care play their own irreplaceable role in the substitute family care system. Together they make the necessary balanced system for children at risk and they complement each other. Well, not every child is suitable for institutional care and otherwise. For example the children hardly disabled or children from repetitively non-functional families would be in high risk of failing again in the foster care. That is the reason, why the planned closing down of the special facilities should be discussed and reconsider again.

This thesis is concerned by the problems of foster care from the view of Christian ethics. It presents interpretation of marriage and family in the Bible, in Christian tradition and at present. It deals with the conception of foster care from history to contemporary form and its valid laws of the Czech Republic. It touches on ethical issues related to foster care. It shows the basic Christian principles, which justify the foster care, however the discussion about its specific shape and form is possible.

This Diploma Thesis deals with the description of the ethical dilemmas faced by personnel attached to the foster family. The first part is devoted to the family, because that is the target group with which the attached person supervising the worker works. The second part deals with foster care, in particular, its legislative definition. This definition determines the boundaries within which the worker moves. Next, I explain, what is the legislation of our country, related to foster care, based on. The third chapter describes what should the attached personnel be like and what is included in their work performance. The next chapter presents dilemmas for workers, which I found, on the basis of qualitative research using interviews with staff. The final, fifth chapter is devoted to the analysis of selected ethical dilemma from the perspective of ethics I. Kant and utilitarianism.

The presented thesis focuses on demands and needs of persons participating in foster care. It is divided into a theoretical and a practical part. In the introduction of the theoretical part, the historical importance of a family having its positive influence on child´s development is explained. The thesis draws attention to protection of rights of children both in international and national documents. Legal regulations relating to substitute family care in the Czech Republic, having foster care in focus, are explained. The following part maps needs of children committed to foster care and needs of foster parents in connection with managing challenging situations they go through with such children. The last part summarizes rights and obligations of foster parents, the importance of accompanying services for foster families, and creates a comprehensive overview regarding possibilities of using social benefits for material security of a child and a foster parent. The practical part identifies differences in foster care performed by a person registered and a person caring. Its aim is to map the most common educational needs for persons registered and persons caring, to evaluate the importance of the assisting organization being attributed by persons registered and persons caring, and to ascertain material requirements of persons registered and persons caring. The output is to identify legislative deficiencies relating to drawing on material and financial securities. Three research questions have been set within the thesis, which comply with thesis targets. Qualitative research was applied. Semi-structured interviews with twelve communication partners were used as data collection basis. The results were processed by a specific qualitative method. Six clusters were made based on received data, which were evaluated as common and referenced in interviews with more communication partners. The research ascertained differences in needs important for a registered foster parent and a caring foster parent. The persons registered, like a crisis institute, must react quickly on child´s demands during his/her adopting. These foster parents place higher demand on education and an assisting organization. Their connection to a key person in the organization is much stronger. Persons caring vary their needs relating to obligatory education and an assisting organization depending on personal experience with raising children and their actual problems. A difference in the way and contents of education was also identified. Differences in financial security of persons registered and persons caring were detected including legislative barriers that prevent especially persons caring from drawing on legal claims. The thesis outputs may by applied as a basis for further research work in this area. The thesis may be used as a supporting material for assisting organizations.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:45:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DissAS.pdf: 873261 bytes, checksum: 9886f0f3c41c4d04cfaf6a4ff398724f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-09 / Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos / Research indicates how foster care institutions problems may harm the development of children and adolescents in need for protection. Thus, a more efficient practice by professionals who work in these entities could contribute with the prevention of deficiencies, which institutionalized children may present. The present work focuses on the role of child protection services and has as general objective to investigate the strategies employed by such professionals, when evaluating foster care institutions, as well as under which quality indicators their assessment behavior is under control. Two studies were carried through in two interior cities of São Paulo estate, Brazil. Four child protection agents, a member of the Municipal Council for the Rights of the Children and the Adolescents, a member of the Social Assistance City Council, the Judiciary power s Social Worker, the town´s Judge, and the Coordinator of the town s single foster care institution participated of Study 1. Study 2 participants were: nine professionals responsible for the foster care evaluation (five Child Protection Agents, one member of the Municipal Council for the Rights of the Children and the Adolescents, the Youth and Child Judge and the city s Prosecutor; as well as five foster care institutions Coordinators). The data was collected by means of interviews, questionnaires and document analysis. Results indicated that the professionals who monitor foster care institutions, in both studies, use, predominantly, local visits to the entity as an evaluation strategy. However, these visits vary in frequency and format (some talk every two to six months with employees and children; while others only observe the functioning of the entity). Quality indicators described as guidelines for the assessment are also varied. The low frequency of reports regarding training aspects of foster care staff and the entity s concern for maintenance of the familiar bonds are of notice. / Pesquisas indicam como as dificuldades de instituições do tipo abrigo podem prejudicar o desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes que estão sob essa medida de proteção. Nesse sentido, uma prática mais eficiente dos profissionais que atuam nessas entidades, poderia contribuir com a prevenção de deficiências às quais os abrigados estão sujeitos. O presente trabalho foca o papel da rede de proteção à criança e ao adolescente e tem o objetivo geral de investigar as estratégias utilizadas por esses profissionais ao avaliarem os abrigos, bem como sob quais indicadores de qualidade o comportamento de avaliar dos mesmos está sob controle. Foram realizados dois estudos em duas cidades do centro-oeste do estado de São Paulo. Participaram do Estudo 1 quatro conselheiros tutelares, uma representante do Conselho Municipal dos Direitos das Crianças e dos Adolescentes, uma integrante do Conselho de Assistência Social do Município, a Assistente Social do poder judiciário, o juiz da cidade e a coordenadora do único abrigo do município. Os participantes do Estudo 2 foram nove profissionais responsáveis pela avaliação dos abrigos, sendo eles: os cinco Conselheiros Tutelares do Município, uma das integrantes do Conselho Municipal dos Direitos da Criança e do Adolescente, o Juiz da Vara da Infância e da Juventude e o promotor da cidade; e cinco coordenadores de abrigos. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevistas, questionários e análise documental. Os resultados indicam que os profissionais que monitoram os abrigos, em ambos os estudos, utilizam predominantemente a visita à entidade como estratégia de avaliação. No entanto a mesma é conduzida de forma e freqüência variada (alguns conversam, bimestralmente ou semestralmente, com funcionários e abrigados; outros apenas observam o funcionamento da entidade). Os indicadores de qualidade descritos como orientadores da tarefa de avaliar, também são variados. Ressalta-se a baixa freqüência de citação de aspectos relacionados às práticas educativas dos monitores dos abrigos e cuidados da entidade para manutenção dos vínculos familiares.

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.

Infertility is the inability to achieve a pregnancy. WHO classify infertility into two groups. Primary infertility is the term used to describe a couple that has never been able to conceive a pregnancy, after at least 1 year of unprotected intercourse. Secondary infertility describes couples who have previously been pregnant at least once, but have not been able to achieve another pregnancy. Causes of infertility include a wide range of physical as well as emotional factors. Approximately 30 - 40% of all infertility is due to a "male" factor such as retrograde ejaculation, impotence hormone deficiency, environmental pollutants, scarring from sexually transmitted disease, or decreased sperm count. A "female" factor -- scarring from sexually transmitted disease or endometriosis, ovulation dysfunction, poor nutrition, hormone imbalance, ovarian cysts, pelvic infection, tumor or transport system abnormality from the cervix through the fallopian tubes -- is responsible for 40 - 50% of infertility in couples. The remaining 10 -30% of infertility cases may be caused by contributing factors from both partners, or no cause can be identified. This dissertation has two main goals. The first goal is to describe how a couple face up to their problems with infertility. The second goal is that this dissertation can be used as a study material for social and medical employees. This dessertation is based on a qualitative research. I used a method CAMI {--} communication through the use of computer. The observational goup were people disccusing at www.neplodnost.cz.

The aim of my dissertation is to provide a look into the subdeprivation phenomena in contemporary child care institutions (children{\crq}s homes, foster care). The theoretical part is focused on defining of basic concepts related to psychological deprivation, defining of psychological needs of children and psychological deprivation displays. Further, it deals with children{\crq}s homes issues, with some kinds of foster family care and with the unwanted children matter. The practical part focuses on the aim of the work. There are compared three children groups (children growing up in a functional family, children from children{\crq}s homes and children from foster care). There are described the findings that were gained from selected tests and observations. In the end the outcomes were evaluated.

Il tema centrale del presente lavoro di tesi è l’affidamento etero-familiare di bambini e ragazzi, temporaneamente privi di un adeguato contesto familiare in cui vivere e, per questa ragione, affidati alle cure di un’altra famiglia, per un periodo di tempo determinato. L’affido familiare si considera un istituto giuridico complesso in quanto si fonda su un delicato intreccio di relazioni tra famiglia d’origine, bambino, famiglia affidataria, operatori dei servizi e autorità giudiziaria. La finalità che ha guidato il lavoro di ricerca quantitativa è l’analisi dei progetti di affido etero-familiare, disposti dal Tribunale per i Minorenni di Milano, mettendo a fuoco i passaggi chiave per il loro avvio e realizzazione e gli snodi critici che si incontrano lungo il percorso. La ricostruzione dei processi di affido familiare è stata realizzata a partire dalle indicazioni del “buon affido”, emersi da due importanti lavori di revisione della letteratura internazionale (Wilson et al., 2004; Raineri e Calcaterra, 2017). L’approccio di studio utilizzato è l’analisi documentaria e la fonte di informazioni scelta i fascicoli dei bambini e ragazzi per cui il Tribunale ha emesso tra il 2010 e il 2014 un decreto di collocamento in famiglia affidataria. Per analizzare i progetti di affido etero-familiari, è stata costruita una “scheda di rilevazione” mediante cui si sono “interrogati” i fascicoli, ottenendo dei dati che è stato possibile poi elaborare statisticamente, mediante analisi del contenuto di tipo quantitativo. La tesi si struttura in due parti: la prima pone le fondamenta teoriche del progetto di ricerca, offrendo una panoramica delle fonti giuridiche in materia di minori e famiglia e del sistema di protezione e tutela dei bambini e ragazzi, con particolare attenzione all’istituto dell’affido familiare e alle tappe operative per la sua promozione e realizzazione, mentre la seconda è dedicata all’illustrazione del disegno della ricerca e all’analisi dei dati raccolti mediante il lavoro di “intervista” a più di cinquecento fascicoli. / Foster care is a complex intervention in child protection and for social workers and Juvenile Courts it’s difficult to identify exactly the outcomes of this care experience. Although his thirty-year history, in the Italian context, foster care represents a challenge, not only for social workers, but also for the Court that decide it, for children and their families and for foster families. This thesis is about foster care projects decided by the Juvenile Court of Milan, in Italy. The research is firstly based on an international literature review of researches on foster care with the aim to identify factors for a “good foster care project” and to create a scheme of success indicators. Starting from the indications emerged from the literature review, the aim of the research was to realize a description of foster care projects decided by the Juvenile Court of Milan from 2010 to 2014. The data collected are analyzed considering the factors for a good foster care placement identified through the literature review. Following a quantitative method, the main part of the research focused on Juvenile Court’s case files analysis. The information about foster care project contained in the documents are collected by a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 308 children for whom the Juvenile Court decided foster care placement. The documentary analysis aimed to recognize and to describe the foster care projects, considering key aspects arisen from the literature review, such as the matching and planning the foster placement, the work with birth families, foster families and foster children, the contacts between the child and his family, the relationship between the two families, the support to foster placement, the project’s conclusion and the possible reunification. This study offers an overview on social work practice in foster care placement in Lombardy, a region of Italy, highlighting also the partnership among different welfare services and the Juvenile Court. The results encourage a reflection on aspects considered important in foster care by social workers in the child protection and the other protagonists of this important care experience.

The master thesis investigates the care of orphans and abandoned children paying special attention to how the care was executed in Prague in the 1st half of the 20th century. First, the thesis describes the general development of care of these children and of legislation. It then focuses on Prague social care of children. The orphans and abandoned children could be provided either in foster families (this form of care was more frequent) or in orphanages. Prague children were often placed outside of Prague to the so called family colonies, where the foster families were concentrated and where it was easier to control the quality of care those children attained in foster families. The other option was care in orphanages. Those could be established by the city, by the church or by an independent charity association. For each option I chose one Prague orphanage as an example. I also tried to describe the everyday life in these institutions. The last chapter focuses on the period view on advantages and disadvantages of both forms of care. Keywords: orphans, abandoned children, social care, Prague, children's homes, foster care, family colonies