The path of future parents to foster care with a focus on adoption

This Diploma Thesis with a title "Future parents' way to foster care with a focus on adoption" has got two main parts. The theoretical part presents a basic approach on the issue of substitute care - family one as well as institutional one. It emphasizes its risks and also its advantages. One of the chapters describes the complete process of adoption, all steps, which applicants must get through and it emphasizes pitfalls of each step. The practical part is based on the theoretical part and it is in a form of an experimental probe. In the practical part there are presented the results of data analysis, which goes from semi-structured interviews with adoption applicants. The Thesis presents a complete overview of the issue of adoption and it also introduces not much discussed topic of direct adoption in the Czech Republic. Key words: Substitute Care, Foster Care, Forms of Foster Care, Institutional Care, Adoption, Direct Adoption, Parents' Approval to Adoption, "Legally Free" Child, Adoption Applican