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Current AffairsNew initiative aims to promote the country’s foster and adoptive families’ system
June 1 marks International Children’s Day in the Czech Republic, where
more than 11,000 children who cannot be raised by their biological parents
live in institutionalized care – an unusually high number compared with
other European countries. Widespread institutionalized care is a legacy of
communism, when children’s homes were the only option and foster families
did not exist. A new initiative, odsouzeni.cz, is aiming to change that. I
spoke to Roman Pavlík, the coordinator of the initiative which aims to
promote alternative forms of child care, such as foster and adoptive
families, in the Czech Republic. I started by asking him to describe the
typical situation of a child who cannot be raised by his or her parents
here in the Czech Republic. More
PanoramaReflecting on baby boxes five years on
Five years ago the first “baby box” - a place where mothers can give up
their unwanted babies anonymously for adoption, was opened in the Czech
Republic. The event was preceded by a heated debate and it took some time
before the advocates of baby boxes convinced the health ministry to give
the project the green light.
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Talking PointProposal seeks to include right to adopt in registered partnership legislation
The Green Party has recently brought forward a proposal to change
legislation so that gay and lesbian individuals in the Czech Republic who
live in a registered partnership would be able to adopt children. The
proposal is based on an analysis by the Committee for Sexual Minorities.
Within Europe, individual adoption for gays and lesbians in registered
partnerships is legal in a number of countries, including Germany, Norway
and the UK.
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Current AffairsGay grouping demands right to adopt children
A gay association has called for the Czech legal landscape to be redrawn
allowing individual members of gay couples to be allowed to adopt
children.
The demand is backed up by legal analysis and a 2,000 signature petition
calling for action. More
Current AffairsGovernment issues new handbook to combat homophobia in Czech schools
The Czech government is distributing a new handbook to primary and
secondary school teachers called “Homophobia in Schools” – aimed at
raising awareness of homosexuality and the problem of bullying based on
sexual orientation. The government council behind the handbook says it
wants teachers to be better able to recognise homophobia – and to do
something about it.
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