The paper compares institutional care in free countries: the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. The article describes institutional care in the Czech Republic with a focus on children's home and education of children from orphanages.The aim is to present a research that investigates whether children in children's homes are motivated to learn or not.
A qualitative strategy, anamnestic study using the interview method (N = 20) was chosen. The result shows that children are insufficiently motivated for an education in the children's home and also in the biological family.
The results of studies show that children from children's home are most often educated at the level of vocational schools.