TOPIC 3 CHILDCARE POLICY
Please bear in mind that if you score an F in the test, you are going to be sent home with an "absence" as you are deemed unprepared for the lesson.

3) CHILDCARE POLICY

1) What kinds of family can you name?

2) When are parents seen as incapable of taking care of their child?

3) What child care institutions can you remember?

4) Which child care institutions have you been to and what are your impressions?

5) What is an adoption and who can adopt in this country?

6) Should adoption law in CZ change?

7) Would you consider adoption if you could not have your own children?

8) What are the drawbacks of growing up in an institution instead of in a family?

9) What are the differences between "adoption" and "foster care"?

10) What does a GUARDIAN do?

11) Children´s homes and their purposes?

12) Who is "a looked-after child" and how does a person become one?

13) How may growing up without a family affect a child?

14) What is a "custody"? Who is a custodian? (find Czech equivalents)

15) When parents get divorced, the court may order a "JOINT CUSTODY". What would it mean for the child?

16) Explain who belongs to a "conjugal family". What else can you call this type of family?