Fewer worries about custody?

(c) 2011 Migros Magazine. Text: Yvette Hettinger. Images: Lea Meienberg. Joint custody is set to become the norm in Switzerland. Many hopes are pinned on the new law. For some families, shared parenting is already a reality. More on this...

A success story

How a 6-year-old girl, with the help of the VeV (Association for the Protection of Children), got to see her father again after months... A wonderful success story. September 2011. Yesterday afternoon, at 2:00 p.m., a mother and father, seemingly hopelessly estranged, met at the...

Duty of care instead of custody rights

(c) Basler Zeitung, May 26, 2011. By Andrea Elisabeth Knellwolf. The regulations in force in this country, according to which an unmarried father has no custody of children without the mother's consent, or in the case of divorce, this is not even granted by the courts...

The old ideology of women is outdated

(c) Landbote, May 27, 2011. By Karin Landolt. The Federal Council has decided to accelerate the implementation of joint parental custody as the norm. For men's organizations, this is "the beginning of a new gender debate." Still in...