Foster care

This bachelor's thesis deals with the issue of foster care, respectively of alternative family care. The main goal provides a comprehensive interpretation of the problems and issues associated with the adoption of a child in the Czech Republic. This thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter defines the general elements concerning to the relations between parents and children and here is also described the social and legal protection of children. The second chapter defines various forms of alternative family care, which replaces the natural family. In the third chapter I describe an adoption, which is considered as a most ideal form of foster care. Last, i.e. the fourth chapter focuses on the practical part of the thesis. It consists of the process of arranging adoption (graphic processing), of the analysis of the questionnaire survey and the analysis of the total number of applicants for the adoption, adopted children in the Czech Republic and adopted children in international adoption