family in Germany

By JULIA SCHAAF and ANKE SCHIPP

January 4, 2023 · What about parents and children at the turn of the year?

A balance sheet in numbers and quotes.


"If queer people now say: Hello, we also want to be seen and have rights, that's not an attack on marriage.

No one wants to take anything away from marriage.”

Sven Lehmann, Queer Commissioner of the Federal Government

486,700 children were born in Germany from January to August 2022.

That is seven percent less than in the same period from 2019 to 2021.


Source: Federal Statistical Office

"This school year is the worst in 50 years." 

Heinz-Peter Meidinger, President of the German Teachers' Association, on the acute shortage of teachers in Germany.

75 percent find that family has a positive influence on their happiness. 

Source: Insa study

86 percent of 10 to 12 year olds own their own smartphone. 


Source: Bitkom study

On average, children and adolescents wait six months for a place in psychotherapy, twice as long as before the pandemic.

Source: Study from the University of Leipzig and the University of Koblenz-Landau

48 percent of young people with disabilities who attend a regular school (inclusion) have experienced exclusion and discrimination. 

Source: German Youth Institute

202,175 Ukrainian refugee children are currently being taught at German schools.

Source: KMK

"Those who do not take care of their fathers' wishes risk losing them." 

Comment by Federal Family Minister Lisa Paus (Greens) on the Prognos study "How father-friendly is the German economy?"

66 percent of working mothers work part-time, but only seven percent of fathers.

Source: Federal Statistical Office

Six percent of girls between the ages of 6 and 19 want to be teachers.

Only 1.6 percent name an influencer as a career choice.

Source: Study by the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television at BR

FAZ series Schneller Schlau "Inherited" educational disadvantages block the way out of poverty

Gaps in care You are a child and chronically ill.

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