There are things that don’t really exist. And certainly not in your own relationship. And then you hear yourself say: leave the keys and go! First it rustles, then it clangs, and finally your apartment door crashes into the lock. You are left alone in the bathtub in which you were just lying together. What you see is fog. Until you realize that this is really happening right now. And then you start to shiver. That was me, after seven years of a marriage-like relationship.
Writing a blog, presenting my life publicly and realistically, is a very foreign thing to me. Nevertheless, I decided to do it because I think that my family constellation is a special one; there are hardly any role models for such a model. Not that I now believe I am necessarily such a role model – but there is me and this story and perhaps it takes us a bit further towards an expanded understanding of the everyday. That is my concern. Like so many things, my story starts with a bang.
The light is already switched on. Amanda sees this, even without really opening her eyes. Mom has taken a shower and the refrigerator door opens and closes in the kitchen. “Off to daycare, up you go,” Mom calls from a distance. But Amanda can’t move at all. Her arms and legs are so heavy today,…
Dad and Max live together in a small apartment. Max’s room is so tiny that he can sleep, play with his knights and brush his teeth in the bathroom all at the same time. That’s why Dad rarely allows Max to bring a friend, and why Max always has to clean up immediately after playing….
Janne is standing at the beginning of the avenue. At the end of the avenue Janne sees sand. The sand belongs to a playground. And on the playground there is a climbing frame. That reaches high, almost to the sky. Anyway, there are winding ropes and tubes to climb up. Then, at the very top,…
Luca can not sleep. Sometimes that’s the way it is with him. He just needs to sleep less sometimes than the other people he knows. He then gets up again in the dark, leaves his nursery and roams the apartment. He looks into his mom’s bedroom. She lies rolled onto her left side in bed….
Alva likes it when the sun shines. Alva then takes her red scooter and drives down the long hallway. At the same time Alva’s blond hair blows behind her. That’s how fast it is. Because Alva lives in a big house. The house stands in the middle of the forest and all around it is…
Berat!, shouts grandpa. Berat, please come to the cabin now. The food is ready! No grandpa, I see land. Yes, really grandpa, there it is. Finland! Berat’s grandpa climbs the narrow wooden ladder until he reaches the deck. Pass me the binoculars, he says. No, Berat, there is no land, I only see water!, he…
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 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…
Maria Arlamovsky is a director. For her film FUTURE BABY, she visited physicians, scientists and technicians in clinics around the world in sterile laboratories, accompanied couples who wished to have children, egg donors and surrogate mothers to examinations and procedures. Familyship spoke with the director about family.
Alexandra Wullbrandt is a family law attorney who encounters new people with their own personal stories and individual family law concerns almost every day. Familyship spoke with her about the changing nature of family.
One man, two children, three mothers: Jochen König is a father, single, blogger and author. To that end, he lives in a co-parenting model by conviction. For Familyship, he talks about the „father“ in our society.
From coming out to having children: how it all began. I can still see my mother crying on the sofa. The year is 1998, I am just 18 years old and have my „coming out“ in my living room at home. My father tries to be cool, and it kind of works. I just think…
At the beginning of my search, for a father for my child, I didn’t even realize that I would be living co-parenting later. It was always important to me that my child knows where his roots are and has a dad who cares for the child and also supports me in educational matters and personally….
Monday evening, 7:30 p.m.: Annika actually still has the fork in her hand and yet the phone is already to her ear. Nino is just in bed and the common TV evening is near – nevertheless she phones me and tells me her story. Annika is not just Annika, it also includes Nadin, her wife,…
Jana is 36, single and an educator by profession. She has wanted to have a child for at least ten years, she reports. At first, she wanted a child with the right woman at her side, but now she separates her desire to have children from her partnership. „I’ve come to the conclusion that I…
I must be a trendsetter. When I went looking for a father five and a half years ago, there was no word for it. Or maybe one that I heard everywhere: Madness! Today it is called co-parenting and seems to be finding a narrow way into society. I guess I only understand the word right…
Denny is gay. On Familyship he met Jacqueline, who is single. ZDF (37 degrees) shows their story of how they came to have their son Emilian.
Christine is one of the two founders of Familyship. In this blog, she shares her story from wanting a child to the daily life of her co-parenting family.