ABSTRACT
The crisis centre for children in Prague 4-Michle was established as the first workplace to resolve problems of battered, abused and neglected children. Its main task is clinical work with thus suffering children, based above all on a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach in diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation and also prevention of this adverse phenomenon in the population. In the course of two years 502 cases were dealt with (on average with 3-4 clients) during 2814 consultations. Most frequently physical and mental abuse was encountered (40%), gross neglect in 17.5% and sexual abuse (in 10%-with a marked relative increase between the first and second year of the activities of the centre). Other problems of child suffering for various reasons (psychiatric or other diseases of the parents, handicapped child, child running away from family etc.) in 32.5%. In addition to clinical work the centre tries to generalize its findings, train workers interested in the above problems, participate in the concept of care of battered children and its implementation in this country.
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Child Abuse , Child Health Services , Child , Czech Republic , HumansABSTRACT
PIP: Results from the third part of a long-term study of children born to unmarried parents in Prague, Czechoslovakia, are discussed, with a focus on the family characteristics of the parents of such children. Consideration is given to parental age and educational status and to changes in marital status. (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)^ieng
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Age Factors , Child , Educational Status , Family Characteristics , Fertility , Illegitimacy , Marital Status , Parents , Single Person , Adolescent , Czechoslovakia , Demography , Developed Countries , Economics , Europe , Europe, Eastern , Family Relations , Marriage , Population , Population Characteristics , Population Dynamics , Social Class , Social Problems , Socioeconomic FactorsABSTRACT
The authors examine changes in the status of 327 single mothers in Czechoslovakia as part of a long-term study on the development of children born to unmarried parents. "There prevails the tendency to conclude marriage with [the] father or at least to live in a permanent union with another man. The number of single [mothers] remains rather low and the tendency towards creating matrimonial families thus predominates." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND RUS)
