Babyboxy jako ekonomické a právní východisko pro matky nechtěných dětí

Abstract

This thesis focuses on the history and present of care of unwanted children as well as the economic and legal aspects associated with deferring a child in a babybox. The aim of this thesis is to describe the development of care of unwanted children and to evaluate the development of the network of babyboxes in the Czech Republic. Another goal is to answer the question, if indeed the mother or parents can get into such a difficult situation so that they had their baby in a babybox insert, the ratio of the cost of family care to the price of the institutional care. The final aim is to confirm or refute the hypothesis that if the mother defers her child in babybox, then she won´t commit the crime. The introductory chapter focuses on describing the history of the care of unwanted children in the world and in the Czech Republic and it also focuses on the description and evaluation of development of babyboxes network in our country. The next chapter elaborates economic problems of this topic through calculation and comparison of the cost of family and institutional child care. Furthermore, in the third chapter is presented the calculation of the cost of construction, operation and maintenance of the babyboxes network in the Czech Republic. In the fourth chapter is defined the legislative framework governing the rights of the child deferred into babybox. There is also a description of the legal procedure of involved authorities, when the newborn is deferred into babybox and there is also the comparison of the Family Code and the new Civil Code, focusing on provisions associated with adopting a child from the babybox. The main finding is that the mother or parents can really get into such a financial situation when a child's care is economically unbearable for them. We also managed to confirm the hypothesis of a legal procedure in the case of postponement of the child to the babybox.