What type of children do the applicants of foster care desire

This bachelor thesis deals with a substitute care in the Czech Republic. It shows differences between substitute family and educational care. The substitute family care is divided to adoption and foster care. At the forefront of this work is the process of adoption or foster care in practice, when an integral part of it is a role of regional office. The objective of this work is to identify and evaluate details from questionnaires for those who are interested of foster care at regional offices, how tolerant they are and what children they would ideate for their families. The theoretical part describes family and its importance for child developing, it points to problems of psychological deprivation at children, distribution of substitute educational and foster care including the historic definition. It focuses on the description of all forms of alternative cares with a focus on foster care and finally characterizes the mediation system of foster care in the Czech Republic. The practical part deals with data analysis of applicants for foster care, from which comes the thesis title ?What children the applicants for foster care want? at the regional office in Ceske Budejovice for the year 2011