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Single-mothers and their families versus public policy in the Czech Republic 1990 - 2015

Publication at Faculty of Social Sciences |
2016

Abstract

This paper is focused on the development of legislation in relation to single mothers since 1989. Specifically, it explains how legislative documents defines against single mothers.

Which legislative documents are affecting them and trying to deal with their situation and how. Paper also describes the evolution of these documents over time, specifically since 1989.

The aim of this paper is to find out how was the situation of single mothers since 1989 developing, if it is improving or getting worse. The assumption is there has been a transformation since 1989, from socialist greater protection on the labor market and greater social support to extinction of single mothers as a specific target group of social policy.