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What is Familyship?

< all questions & answers Familyship is a social community where it is possible to meet people who want to start a family. The special thing is that the desire to have children can also be decoupled from a love relationship. That is, whether single, lesbian or gay, single parent, married or beyond 40. At…

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Who is behind Familyship?

< all questions & answers We had the idea to build such a community in 2011. “We”, that’s Christine Wagner and Miriam Förster from Berlin. At that time we were a lesbian couple who wanted to have children. The search for an active father for our child produced Familyship. In the meantime, we are both…

What is co-parenting?

What is co-parenting?

< all questions & answers In co-parenting, at least two adults who are not in a romantic relationship find themselves raising their offspring together. Sexual orientation is secondary in co-parenting. Possible constellations are single people or multi-parent families, where more than two adults take care of the offspring. This can happen when a couple constellation…

What is solo motherhood?

What is solo motherhood?

< all questions & answers Solo motherhood results from a woman raising her offspring in a planned manner without a partner. In this case, she is also a single parent, but the term single parent is often socially connoted by negative attributes, so solo motherhood must be distinguished from it. People usually become single parents…

What is a rainbow family?

What is a rainbow family?

< all questions & answers The definition of a rainbow family states that at least one parent is homosexual. At this point, associations quickly arise of two women married to each other who have started a family by means of sperm donation. Or the gay couple who hired a surrogate mother abroad. Certainly, this is…