[2 years' activity of the Crisis Center for Children in the care of battered, abused and neglected children].

The crisis centre for children in Prague 4-Michle was established as the first workplace to resolve problems of battered, abused and neglected children. Its main task is clinical work with thus suffering children, based above all on a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach in diagnosis, therapy and rehabilitation and also prevention of this adverse phenomenon in the population. In the course of two years 502 cases were dealt with (on average with 3-4 clients) during 2814 consultations.

[Prague's study of illegitimate children, part 2. Changes in mothers' family status].

The authors examine changes in the status of 327 single mothers in Czechoslovakia as part of a long-term study on the development of children born to unmarried parents. "There prevails the tendency to conclude marriage with [the] father or at least to live in a permanent union with another man. The number of single [mothers] remains rather low and the tendency towards creating matrimonial families thus predominates.