Category: About us

The Protestant Working Group Family (eaf) is a collaboration of protestant social institutions, associations and national working groups, who engage themselves with the concerns and requirements of families. The purpose of this collaboration is the collective advising and representation of social, economical, legal, pedagogic and ethical questions in family policy as well as the furtherance of family advice, education and […]

In 1953, nationwide more than a half a million catholic families collaborated to form an interest and action committee: The Catholic Family Association (FDK). The ideal behind this collaboration was and remains today the conviction that in society families can and must actively participate and undertake responsibility, in order to receive the necessary ideals and material recognition. The Catholic Family […]

The Association for Single Parents (VAMV) was founded in 1967, in the schwabian Herrenberg, by Luise Schöffel as an association of single mothers. Today approximately 9.000 members nationwide promote the interests of over 2 million single parent families, from families therefore, in which, single, separated, divorced or widowed parents live with their children. It also deals with the claims of […]

The Association of Binational Families and Partnerships iaf e.V. is, since 1972, the contact partner for the concerns of couples and families, who live a binational/bicultural everyday life. In the years of its existence it has developed from “the interests of the community of women who are married to foreigners” to an intercultural family union that is working as a non […]

The Zukunftsforum Familie e.V. / Forum for Progressive Family Policy (ZFF) was founded in 2002 on the initiative of the Workers’ Welfare Association (AWO) as a family policy association. Since then, the ZFF has been working on behalf of our members to ensure that family policy is oriented toward solidarity-based and democratic goals and does justice to all generations, population […]