Reproductive medicine is one of the most progressive and most popular medicine branches. Its success and rapid development, together with the primacy of biological or genetic ties in the western construction of family is considered the main reason for decreasing popularity of adoption as the way of resolving involuntary childlessness. These assumptions are confronted with empirical findings about Czech population. The respondents of the survey conducted in the Czech households were asked about their preferences in the hypothetical situation of being confronted with physical infertility and about their attitudes towards various ways of solving it. The data showed that while infertility is actually constructed as a medical problem requiring high technology medical treatments, the adoption would not be considered a choice of last resort, after the failure of all procedures of artificial reproduction, including using donor gametes or embryo. Further, the data does not support the hypothesis of significant gender differences in these attitudes.
The vocation to parenthood is one of the basic tasks of the spouses. In the modern world marital infertility is one of the ever more common problems affecting married couples. On the other hand, ever more often we encounter situations, in which parents, especially single mothers, do not want to raise their children. The meeting of the needs of people in both these situations makes the so-called unwanted or rejected children get a chance to find parental love and a family home by means of adoption. The article tackles the issue of adoption present in the teaching of the Magisterium of the Church. It indicates that accepting a born child to the family through adoption is a requirement of the spouses' fertile love, but also a Christian fulfillment of the commandment of love, the service to life and a way to preach the 'Gospel of life' by means of acts of love given to the most needy child. Adoption is not an easy thing, an event that happens once, but it amounts to saying 'yes' to love; it is accepting a certain way of life, in which serving another man and Christ present in the 'least' man is the first and supreme aim of adoptive parents' life. It is also worth stressing that the necessity to shape and create mentality serves a man not as something exceptional, but exactly as the style of life of Christian spouses.
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Infertility is a problem that affects around 15% of Czech couples of reproductive age. Using data from the survey 'Marriage, Work, Family' the objective of this analysis is to identify the attitudes that Czech men and women maintain towards various strategies for overcoming infertility (adoption, different forms of assisted reproduction) and the factors that influence and shape these attitudes. The first part of the analysis looks for the determinants behind attitudes towards adoption and assisted reproduction in the respondent's external characteristics. For example, education and religion were found to have a significant influence. More educated respondents are more open to methods of assisted reproduction; religious respondents are more open to adoption. In terms of inner determinants (the respondent's attitude patterns) the authors, building on the preference theory proposed by Catherine Hakim, found a preference effect among women. The findings are seemingly paradoxical: of three groups of women (work-centred, home-centred, and adaptive) it is work-centred women (and the partners of work-centred women) who are most likely to take various infertility strategies into consideration. The third part of the analysis - an analysis of the external determinants of attitudes towards infertility strategies - revealed that in some cases attitudes are influenced by the characteristics of the partner more than by the respondent's own characteristics - in particular, the woman's attitudes are shaped more by the characteristics of her partner than by her own characteristics.
Artykuł omawia międzynarodowe adopcje jako zjawisko migracyjne. Przedstawiono trendy, kierunki i zmiany w międzynarodowych adopcjach na początku XXI wieku, ich uwarunkowania (społeczne, demograficzne, polityczne i prawne), a także główne wątki w dyskusji wokół międzynarodowych adopcji i ich specyfiki. Ujęcie adopcji międzynarodowych jako ruchów migracyjnych daje możliwość wielowymiarowego spojrzenia na globalne nierówności i przepływ dzieci między granicami państw narodowych. Z jednej strony pozwala na wskazanie tych wszystkich czynników, które sprzyjają pojawieniu się ruchów migracyjnych wraz z ich odniesieniem do nierównej pozycji i redystrybucji zasobów migrantów. Z drugiej strony wzbogaca wiedzę na temat migracji o specyfikę zjawiska adopcji wraz z jej istotnym odniesieniem do sytuacji najmłodszych migrantów.
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The article discusses international adoptions as a migratory process. It presents contemporary trends, destinations, and changes in international adoptions worldwide at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the factors (social, demographic, political, and legal) behind the process, and the key issues in the academic debate around international adoptions and their specificity. Interpreting international adoptions through migratory lens provides the opportunity to look at global inequalities and the flow of children across international borders in a comprehensive manner. On the one hand, all factors behind migration flows can be distinguished, including those referring to the unequal position and redistribution of migrants’ resources. On the other hand, it deepens our degree of understanding of migrations by encompassing adoptions and the situation of children.
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