The Parents' view on the current problems of pre-school care

My thesis "The Parents' view on the current problems of pre-school care", focuses on the problem of raising number of unsatisfied applications of placing children in the kindergartens. It deals also with the problems with joint of parents' careers and family life, which are caused by refused applications of placing. Year by year there is raising excess demand. The pre-school care established by state is a tool which helps parents to harmonize their work and family role. It has been done a research using a method of semi-structured interviews with parents of children at the pre-school age and with headmasters of public kindergartens. It has been recognized two main reasons why parents prefer the placement in the public kindergartens to other alternatives of pre-school care. The main reasons were child's socialization in a group and financial accessibility for parents. The alternatives of pre-school care were not preferred among parents, because they are expensive and parents mostly don't trust them. Because of refused application they stayed at home with child, they did not return to their work. It has been identified problematic areas which are connected with (un)placing a child in the kindergarten, those are criteria of admission and overfull classes. The overfull classes don't enable the..