Abstract
The purpose of this article is to present partial results of research that examined the effect of long-term stay in alternative forms of care settings (in institutional care and in foster families) on various aspects of adult life. Monitored area in the presented study was the educational trajectory of respondents.
In the first part we describe the types of these forms of care in the Czech Republic, especially institutional care. The second part presents a part of the study in which an anamnesis questionnaire and a battery of psychological tests were used in order to compare a research group of adults with an experience in alternative care (n = 128) and a control group of people growing up in the original families (n = 103).
The third part of the paper is devoted to results related to educational attainment, the path to it, and also mentions perspective on educational attainment despite differences in personality traits. It turned out that people who spend the whole or part of the childhood in alternative care achieve lower forms of education, have lower educational aspirations, have larger difficulties in the school trajectory and from the surroundings receive less support of learning.
From the above results follow recommendations in relation to the educational process of children placed in alternative forms of care.