Father's departure for children

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Väteraufbruch für Kinder eV (in short: Väteraufbruch or VafK ) is a German association that aims to strengthen men's rights and emphasize the value of the father, partly as a self-help group , partly as a political association and advocacy group in the field of the father's and men's rights movement .

history

The association was founded in 1988. With around 50 groups and contact points spread across Germany, it is one of the largest fathers' initiatives in Germany. According to its own information, the association has over 3,000 members, ten percent of whom are women, who are involved in around 90 regional groups. It is recognized as a non-profit organization and is based in Frankfurt am Main .

Activity and goals

At the federal level, the association mainly deals with public relations work in the form of petitions , open letters , contacting the media, participating in talk shows and television documentaries, and negotiating with parties and associations. The association is a member of the national men's forum . At the state level, there are associations to better influence the politics of the federal states . In addition, the association holds its meetings, looks after its homepage and networks the various discussion groups via the Internet.

Family law

The VafK sees men as victims of separation and divorce and is of the opinion that the existing legal practice of the courts favors women and mothers and discriminates against men and fathers . According to the association, the rights of men and fathers must be enforced against women and mothers as well as against a state allegedly privileging women.

According to its own statements, the VafK advocates joint care for children after a separation or divorce. He calls for the full implementation of a decision of the European Court of Justice in national law, according to which unmarried parents automatically have joint custody from birth. It also calls for the abolition or radical restriction of adult maintenance and a limitation of child maintenance depending on the extent of the care provided by the father. The VafK says it is committed to helping children who live apart from their fathers because their mothers refuse to see their fathers. Accordingly, the website of the club is full of information to " parental alienation syndrome " (Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)). Information material on Richard A. Gardner , who first postulated the syndrome, and his German-speaking representatives are also made available by the association on its website. In 2002 a regional association of the VafK organized an international congress on the PAS.

In the Görgülü case, the VafK sees the whole problem of the currently existing rights of access for fathers who have to live separated from their children exemplified and has therefore made this case public.

Paternity tests

The VafK commented on the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court of February 13, 2007, which declared clandestine paternity tests to be unconstitutional and on the law to clarify paternity regardless of the appeal procedure . Despite the ruling, the association wanted to advocate “self-determined” paternity tests because these were “not punishable for the time being”. The association argued that knowing one's parentage was of great psychological and existential importance for the child and assessed it as a "heavy burden" not to know the father, which caused medical impairments in the child. In addition, the child is statistically more likely to be killed by a partner of the mother who is not the biological father of the child than by the biological father. The association named the two exceptional situations of killing and organ transplantation as the reason for the child's postulated interest in the parentage. In addition, there could be good relationships between non-biological surrogate fathers and the children, but in the child's best interests (the BGH confirms this), according to the VafK, there is always an interest in maintaining the legal relationship with the actual father or, if this has not yet occurred to manufacture. According to the VafK, the mother is in a potential conflict of interest because she could confuse her own interests with the best interests of the child. This could also apply to fathers. With regard to the moral status of women, the association assumes that the unmarried pregnant woman, who “can choose between several men who are equally close or equally distant”, chooses the father who corresponds to her ideas of parenting. According to VafK, the right of a parent to preserve his or her privacy is negligible compared to the child's right to know his or her own parentage.

criticism

In the 1980s, the association mainly supported the position of men after separation and divorce, as well as illegitimate people. Meanwhile, some local associations represent right-wing conservative positions, some of the association is anti-feminist, according to Thomas Gesterkamp . The gender congress, which has been taking place in Nuremberg since 2015, is based on the work of local associations of father-awakening and is considered an anti-gender event .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jörg Fichtner: Under a false flag. The completely new fatherliness through denunciation of the mother. In: Andrea Geier, Ursula Kocher (Ed.): Against the woman: on the history and function of misogynist speech. Böhlau, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-15304-5 , p. 223.
  2. ↑ Jörg Rupp: The early masculism on the Internet. In: Andreas Kemper (ed.): The masculists. Unrast Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-523-3 , pp. 18-27.
  3. ↑ Sabina Schutter: “Real” children. About secret and inconsequential paternity tests. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-92867-8 , p. 24.
  4. ↑ Eva Marie von Münch: Rigid Fronts: Fathers want rights, but no obligations. In: Zeit Online from November 18, 1988.
  5. ↑ Dag Schölper: Civil society men's politics in Germany . In: Markus Theunert (Ed.): Men's politics . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2012, p. 368. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-19041-9 15 .
  6. ↑ a b c Anja Wolde: Father's initiatives: a new social phenomenon. In: Fathers on the move? Interpretation patterns of fatherliness and masculinity in the context of father initiatives. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2007, ISBN 978-3-531-90638-6 , pp. 53-66. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-90638-6 3
  7. ↑ Association “Väteraufbruch für Kinder”: “A child needs both parents equally”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Nordkurier on August 17, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de  
  8. ↑ website of the Bundesforum Männer (accessed on May 23, 2014)
  9. ↑ a b Kirsten Scheiwe, Maria Wersig : Cash und Care - Child maintenance law and gender (in) equality. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89971-838-6 , p. 103.
  10. ↑ Christina Bylow: Marital status: Single parent: Plea for a strong way of life. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2011, ISBN 978-3-579-06751-3 , p. 95.
  11. ↑ Tina Groll: Even for “men are difficult to combine work and children”. Zeit Online, March 25, 2010, accessed May 30, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Barbara Schwarz: The distribution of parental care from an educational and legal point of view. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-92691-9 , p. 238 f.
  13. ^ The Görgülü case in the Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
  14. ↑ taz
  15. ↑ Spiegel online
  16. ↑ a b Sabina Schutter: The child as a bargaining chip. In: "Correct" children: Of secret and inconsequential paternity tests. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-92867-8 , pp. 119–132. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-92867-8 8
  17. ↑ Parentage test: Fathers' Association cannot be deterred . In: Der Focus , February 17, 2007.
  18. ↑ a b Sabina Schutter: Mothers between care and cheating. In: "Correct" children: Of secret and inconsequential paternity tests. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-92867-8 , pp. 133-139. doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-531-92867-8 9
  19. ↑ Doctoral college children and childhoods in the field of tension of social modernization (ed.): Childhood images and the actors of generational arrangements . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-17691-8 , p. 67.
  20. ↑ Thomas Gesterkamp: Debate single parents: fathers on the wrong track . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 9, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed February 24, 2020]).
  21. ^ A b Thomas Gesterkamp: The Separation Fathers Association is radicalizing (new Germany). Retrieved February 24, 2020 .