Publications

This empirical study, authored by Tanja Betz from the Gutenberg University Mainz and her team, provides insights into the relationship between early years institutions and the family, and thus into everyday interactions between professionals, children and parents. It...

The empirical study at hand, authored by Tanja Betz from the Gutenberg University Mainz and her team, provides insights into the actors’ varying viewpoints and experiences regarding different types of contact between parents and teachers. The aim is particularly to...

For the "Children’s Worlds+" study 3,500 children and youth in Germany were polled by Prof. Sabine Andresen and her team at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main to find out about their needs and interests. This brochure summarizes the results of this study for children and...

For children in single parent families, the risk of living in income poverty is extremely high.

For children in single parent families, the risk of living in income poverty is extremely high.

Children in German single parent families live in poverty five times more often than children who live with both parents.

Families today are far more diverse than they were ten or twenty years ago – these developments have to be kept in mind by policymakers.

A current study of the Bertelsmann Stiftung illustrates the special burden that is imposed on families by pay-as-you-go pension schemes.