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Foster families

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3 min

«I wanted to do better later on»

Valentina Müller had a difficult childhood. The mother of one son had to learn to give up her claim to perfection in parenting.

Family
11 min

Foster family: temporary parents

In Switzerland, around 19,000 children and young people do not grow up with their biological parents, but in care homes or with foster parents.

Family
5 min

«A foster child will never be your own child»

Foster child Aargau: Karin Gerber says that a child must be given age-appropriate explanations as to why it cannot live with its parents.

Family
4 min

Growing up with grandparents

Siriwan is 16 years old and lives with her grandparents Ines, 76, and Edi, 74, in Zurich. How does that work?

Education
5 min

Foster families: «Love alone is not enough»

Family
3 min

External placement: «Finding the right path is no easy task»

Who decides whether a child can no longer live at home and where it should go? To a home, to relatives or to a foster family?

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