This thesis deals with the situation and the reasons mothers who voluntarily or involuntarily give up their children.

Fertility transformation in the youngest age from point of view of demography Abstract This thesis aims at evaluating fertility transformation in the youngest age in the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century in the Czech Republic. Circumstances and causes of transformation of fertility in this age group of women are based on usage of theoretical concepts related to fertility issues in the youngest age. The chosen period shows a number of changes in socioeconomic, political and legislative way. The transformation of the society in 20th century had influence on fertility level and fertility timing. Form of motherhood in the young age has changed also. Differences of characteristics of fertility in youngest age influenced by social evolution were shown on example of comparison of young women fertility evolution in Czech Republic, France and Romania. It approves that fertility level in the youngest age can be the driver of the social progression. Keywords: fertility, Czech Republic, young mother

The presented diploma thesis focuses on artistic rendering of my relationship with mother, mainly in terms of colour expression, which I see as crucial. The work is divided into two parts, the practical part and the theoretical one. The theoretical part deals with psychology of colours and their impact on a human being. The practical part consists of six large-scale acrylic paintings painted on canvas, description of my individual artistic development and sources of inspiration.

1 Abstract The thesis discusses breastfeeding in terms of cultural anthropology. The theoretical part describes breastfeeding in the historical and social context, while also focusing on the current situation in Slovakia. The research part of the thesis analyzes selected group of eleven Slovak university educated women of the present generation of nursing mothers. The basic research hypothesis is that society and culture affects the relationship of selected group of mothers to breastfeeding. The paper uses the method of semi-structured interviews and participatory observation. Basic sets of issues reflect subjective views and experiences of mothers with these problems. The work concluded that breastfeeding among university-educated mothers is significantly affected. To a large extent, breast feeding is structured in relation to social pressure, and it is also prevalent in women's distinctive individuality.

OUŘEDNÍKOVÁ, Veronika. Addicted mothers in relation to pregnancy and motherhood. Praha, 2016. 84 s. Diploma thesis. Charles University, Hussite theological faculty. Supervisor: PhDr. Miloslav Čedík The diploma thesis deals with problems of drug addiction of women during pregnancy and motherhood. The work is divided into theoretical and practical. The theoretical part discusses the basic concepts and generally approaching the issue. An important part of this passage is the chapter that describes care system in the Czech Republic on drug-dependent pregnant women and mothers. The practical part is mainly composed of qualitative research, which was conducted in therapeutic community Karlov with drug addicted mothers. The second part of the thesis is to investigate the influence of pregnancy and motherhood on the life of drug addicted women. In conclusion, the diploma thesis presents the results obtained on the basis of the research, which was conducted through semi-structured interviews with clients in healing the therapeutic community Karlov.

The work is divided into two chapters. In the first one the World's and Czech poets (chosen on the basis of Orten's list of reading) are analyzed. Those authors could be understood as impersonators or predecessors of the existential tendencies and it's provable Orten knew their works well (i.a. Rilke, Rimbaud, Akhmatova, Mácha, Weiner, Halas, Holan, Zahradníček, Bonn and Daniel). The second and more voluminous chapter consists of the motives' and topics' analysis of Orten's literary work, focused mainly on the poetry and less on the other literary genres - notes, letters, prose. The most of his poems and notes is based on the factual life experience and their ethos is founded on both existential and Christian moral philosophy. There's also an influence of some other intellectual tendencies and artistic styles like folk literature, romanticism, impressionism, less intensively expressionism, naturalism, psychoanalysis, surrealism and naturism. To get the coherent interpretation of Orten's work it's necessary to reflect (beside the existential motives) the pathos of the intimate traumatic relationship to the father, the girl(friend)s and the unborn child as well as the deeply Christian understanding of reality (connected with the biblical /The Old Testament/ dialogical relation to the God, the...

English Abstract This diploma thesis consists of nine chapters and focuses on the criminal law aspects of the crime - the murder of a newborn baby caused by mother. The first chapter contains an introduction to the topic, mainly the brief historical excursion and analysis of current legislation. The next chapter is devoted to the general discussion of the privileged state of facts. The following passage of my thesis deals with the characteristics of state of facts of newborn's murder crime. The characteristics specifically are: a subject, a subjective aspect, an object and an objective aspect. In the chapter about the subjective aspect (the psychological state of the mother character as a type of crime) I devote more attention to the theme of crime and the problematic term "distress after birth." I'm trying to define the duration of the distress caused by childbirth. In the chapter about the object of the crime, called Newborn's life as the object of a criminal offense, I mainly devote to the material object of an attack. I try to present the different views on the problems of determination of the human's life beginning. The sixth chapter (called Newborn's death as a result of mother's treatment) deals with various ways of murderous treatments, which are supplemented by the casuistry. In this section I also...

The diploma thesis engages in rehabilitation of families with inexperienced mothers, who are immature to handle the role of mother. Thesis is divided into six chapters, where five chapters are theoretical and one is practical. Theoretical part is focused on the term inexperienced mother in raising a child, family rehabilitation, types of threats for child, communication techniques used in rehabilitation of families and options of assistance. Practical part is based on findings from theoretical part and is accomplished in form of qualitative research, using the method of interviews with social workers from OSPOD. In this part the main research question and two minor research questions are formulated. Research is then analyzed a displayed in graphs. Next comes summary of results, discussion and conclusion. Key words Family rehabilitation, immature mother, problematic family, endangered child

According to the experts, the breastfeeding support and education of mothers in the Czech Republic is insuficient. There is declining number of children who are brestfed exclusively to six months of life, premature babies posing even greater problem in this matter. Much of this problematic trend resides in the lack of support for mothers. A major problem in the Czech Republic is the fact that there are still a few maternity hospitals which are arranged so that mothers can be with their babies immediately after birth, especially if we talk about preterm newborns. Breastfeeding is the most important way to ensure the healthiest nutritional needs of an infant. It allows not only nutrition, but also feeling of safety and security, which is very important in proper development of the child. Furthermore, the breastfeeding contributes to the creation of solid emotional relationship between mother and child. Among other things, breastfeeding is undoubtedly the cheapest possible child nutrition. Goal of this thesis is to draw attention to a small number of premature babies, who are fully breastfed at discharge from the hospital leading to many negative consequences such as reduced immunity, psychosocial issues, et cetera. In our opinion, the problem is caused by lack of time, excessive workload of nurses and doctors' little initiative. Through this thesis we would like to draw attention to current knowledge and information about the breastfeeding preterm infants in perinatal centers. We also mapped the number of premature babies fully breastfed at discharge from hospital and identified through research the causes of low prevalence of breastfeeding these children. Another objective was to map the knowledge and skills of nurses in practice, to determine the connection between these skills and the difference in diet between compared hospitals. Finally, we propose solutions to the identifed shortcomings. The theoretical part processed characteristics of a premature baby, anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding and its benefits for the child, proper breastfeeding technique, the importance of nurses in the management of breastfeeding and activities to promote breastfeeding in the Czech Republic and in the world. In the empirical part we used qualitative and quantitative research. We collected data in three randomly selected perinatal centers in the Czech Republic during the fourth quarter of 2012. The stated objectives of the study were processed using a questionnaire, content analysis of documents and methodology and regression trees. The research showed that all of the top centers have similar level of child care. However, there are significant differences in nutrition and ways of feeding the children and nursing care. The study showed that child nutrition at discharge from hospital is different, and this may have an impact on the later development of the child, as evidenced by other studies. Differences in nursing care most relevant to the proper and effective education of the mothers, which both can be observed from the investigation, have the greatest impact on the type of diet at the end of the hospitalization of the infant.

This diploma thesis focuses on assessment of the mother - child relationship during the first three days after childbirth. The theoretical section discusses motherhood, pregnancy and the act of childbirth. From the postpartum standpoint, the mother's psyche and the psychology of the newborn are at the centre of our attention, along with issues related to providing support and ensuring the mother - child bonding processes takes place. Early communication between mother and child is described, as is the origin and development of bonding. To prepare the theoretical section of the thesis, available Czech and foreign sources on the topic were used. The thesis aims to map out how primiparas feel about their new social role as mother, and the nature of their relationship to their newborn in the first days after childbirth. To fulfil this objective, we employ a qualitative-quantitative methodology in the empirical section. Various research methods are used: individual semi-structured interviews, analyses and subsequent data analyses, the "think out loud" method (i.e., the regular verbalisation of one's own thinking process), and the MIRF scale. Ten mothers agreed to take part in the research; all of them in the period from one to three days after the birth of their first child. Based upon an analysis of the data, we determined that in terms of their feelings about motherhood and their relationship with their newborn, these research subjects may be divided into four major groups. The conclusions arrived at in the research were compared with those of Thorstensson et al. (2012), the study that inspired our efforts. Our experience with the interviews carried out with mothers shows that during the semi-structured interview during which they answered our questions these mothers were more focused on themselves, their feelings and issues. However, when they subsequently filled out the MIRF scale, the situation changed. The mothers shifted their focus to their children and their specific feelings towards them. Filling out the MIRF scale improved the mothers' understanding of the individual aspects of their relationship towards their children. The MIRF scale helped them to identify individual areas better. For this reason, we consider the use of the MIRF scale as beneficial from the standpoint of both mothers and the medical staff caring for them and their newborns in the first days after childbirth. The MIRF scale could be utilised practically as part of routine care for mothers and their children. It might improve the support mothers for interacting with their newborns and thereby effectively increase the mothers' sensitivity to their baby's behaviour.