Substitute Family Care from the Perspective of Homosexual Men

The bachelor thesis covers the topic of homosexual's views on Surrogate family care, not only from the viewpoint of the sexual orientation. The theoretical part of the thesis covers the topics of various aspects of homosexuality, Surrogate family care and the raising of children by homosexuals. The qualitative research method, specifically phenomenological examination, has been selected for the research part of the thesis. Data collection has been realised using semi-structured interviews. The research sample has consisted of eight communication partners. These communication partners were childless homosexual males, aged 20 35 years old. They were selected using the Snowball sampling technique. The aim of the thesis is to discover what are homosexual male's stances towards Surrogate family care in context with their sexual orientation and subsequently how do they perceive the Czech system of Surrogate family care. To achieve these goals two research questions were crated. The first research question asks whether homosexual males consider the Czech Surrogate family care system negative in any way. The second research question then seeks the answer to the question whether homosexual men desire to be parents. The results of the research show that the opinions of male homosexuals towards raising children are very diverse. Most of the communication partners are more inclined to become parents. Some however don't know whether they would like to raise a child or not. The most frequently mentioned obstacles which prevent the communication partners to raise children include the lack of time, the lack of money, the fact that they don't have a partner, age and a lot of other factors. In regards to the Czech Surrogate family care system, the communication partners consider its greatest shortage the fact that homosexuals cannot adopt a child. They also see problems in the heterosexual adoptive parents selection process, in the way how the true interests of biological parents are defined and in the possibility of taking children from foster care