Family in change

Family is changing. What does science know about it? What impact does this have on legal issues? Are there moral boundaries? The perspectives on family change are as varied as our interviewees.

  • Prof. Dr. Angelika Walser

    Prof. Dr. Angelika Walser

    From the Holy Family to patchwork reality: what values shape the family?
    Prof. Dr. Angelika Walser works as a Catholic moral theologian and university professor at the University of Salzburg. Together with Ms. Bernadette Breunig, she has put a scientific spotlight on co-parenting: She conducted a qualitative study. In your research, you deal with the topic of family and how it is subject to change. What are…

  • Henrike Hartmann

    Making the choice of a way of life sociologically understandable
    Henrike Hartmann is a freelance journalist and has just successfully completed her bachelor’s thesis on the topic of becoming a parent without a romantic relationship. For her thesis, she interviewed four people from Familyship and shed light on their motivation for co-parenting.

  • Bernadette Breunig

    To many, a friendship seems the more stable basis for starting a family
    Bernadette Breunig is a project assistant in the Theological Ethics at the University of Salzburg. Together with Professor Walser, she put a scientific burning glass on co-parenting: She conducted a qualitative study.

  • Dr. Lydia Ottlewski

    With the help of the roles provided by Familyship, family is rethought & reconceptualized
    Dr. Lydia Ottlewski is an assistant professor at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) in the field of “Consumer Culture Theory” – consumer and market research from a cultural perspective. This interdisciplinary field of research is aimed at developing a better understanding of why consumers* act in a certain way and why consumer culture takes…

  • Prof. Dr. Christine Wimbauer

    When people permanently and reliably take responsibility for each other, that is family.
    Professor Christine Wimbauer conducts research in her department of sociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin on topics including couple relationships, work, love, family and social policy, and also gender inequalities. Her book, Co-Parenting and the Future of Love, is about post-romantic parenting. Familyship now had the opportunity to talk to her about the state…

  • Monika Osberghaus

    It’s probably becoming more and more normal that there’s just everything.
    Monika Osberghaus is the publisher of Klett Kinderbuchverlag. Only recently, the German translation of the children’s book “Rainbow Days” was published there. An already award-winning book by a young Norwegian author.

  • Gianni Bettucci

    I would like to see co-parenting become an option in the future
    Gianni is the father of a daughter, lives in a co-parenting relationship and is openly gay. He is one of the editors of the book “Regenbogenväter” (Rainbow Fathers), and also runs the Gay Daddy Stammtisch in Berlin.

  • Madita Hausstein

    Be proud and loud and love each other! Love makes family!
    Madita is rainbow mom. What that means exactly, what such an everyday life looks like and which questions are relevant around it, she discusses in her own podcast “Gay Mom Talking”.

  • Dr. Andrea Buschner

    Is family law still up to date?
    Social changes come and go. Until they are legally mapped, they are often subject to a different time calculation. “Is the legal assignment of a child to mother and father according to §§ 1591, 1592 BGB still up-to-date?” Pawel Rydygier investigated this question in his thesis. In this interview, he answers current topics on family…

  • Dr. Andrea Buschner

    The influence of the family form is mostly overestimated
    Dr. Andrea Buschner was a researcher at the State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg. She collaborated on the important study on the living situation of children in same-sex civil partnerships. Familyship spoke with her about the changing nature of family as well as the impact of different family models on child…

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Family is changing. This is commonplace for us. We know patchwork families, have heard of the alternating model and are also familiar with single parents. New family constellations make it clear that this does not necessarily have to be born out of necessity. The desire to have children does not have to be linked to a partnership. New models bring new freedoms.