title: [The child at risk in modern society].
abstract: The endangered status and development of children is an extremely important social problem which deserves maximal attention of all participating disciplines and the broad public, in particular parents. The threat or risk of the child involves a substantial taxonomic variety, therefore the author tries to define the entire area by terms such as risk factor, individual at risk, group at risk and risk situation, to assess their content and extent and their mutual relations. This is important not only for the understanding among the involved specialists but also for a more profound understanding of the entire problem and its solution. Attention was paid to the problem how and why the risk plays or does not play a part in relation to the child and how and why this possibility changes or does not change into reality. The author draws attention to the wider significance of risk in human life, not only in the negative sense. From the aspect of specific features of child life in different stages of their development attention is drawn to how children perceive risk, how they cope or do not cope with it and what are the tasks of society and its workers and members in the diagnosis, prevention of risks threatening the status and development of children.
authors.affiliation: Institutu pro dalsí vzdĕlávání lékarů a farmaceutů, Praha.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dunovský
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siklová
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002669:Child Welfare; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D012924:Social Conditions
vernacular_title: Ohrozené dítĕ v soucasné spolecnosti.