Association of single mothers and fathers

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Association of single mothers and fathers registered association
purpose Representation of interests of single parents in politics, the public and society, help for self-help
Chair: Daniela Jaspers
Manager: Miriam Hoheisel
Establishment date: 1967
Number of members: around 8,000 (as of 2009)
Seat : Berlin
Website: www.vamv.de

The Association of Single Mothers and Fathers (VAMV) is a non-profit interest group based in Berlin .

It operates on the principle of self-help, ie it offers families consisting of one parent and children (single parent families) help through information and advice. The VAMV works towards realizing the basic rights of equality and special protection of the family and the welfare state principle for single (including expectant) mothers and fathers and their children and to improve their living conditions.

history

The association was founded on July 8, 1967 in Herrenberg, Swabia, by Luise Schöffel as the "Association of Single Mothers" . In the Federal Republic of Germany there were 564,000 (7 percent of all families) "semi-families with children under 18 years" (statistical name). In 2007, the VAMV founded the European Network of Single Parent Families (ENoS) together with six single parent organizations from neighboring countries.

Main topics

The work of the association focuses on family law ( access rights , parental care , maintenance ), social law (unemployment, standard needs , subsistence level ), tax law (tax brackets, spouse splitting , deductibility of childcare costs ) and education ( child daycare , all-day schools, freedom from learning materials ). The VAMV makes proposals for changes to the law on these focal points, writes expert opinions for decisions of the Federal Constitutional Court, prepares statements on bills, takes part in hearings in the Bundestag, runs campaigns on relevant topics (e.g. the campaign to reduce VAT on products for children (2011) or a petition against child poverty (2016)) and is the organizer of a large annual conference. The VAMV offers further training courses and seminars for members, in particular to improve political communication and to deal with the new media.

As a lobbying association, the Federal Association 'influences legislation, uses its public relations work to point out the special situation of single parents and their children and, in collaboration with other nationwide organizations, institutions and associations, represents the interests of single parent families. Prizes for the VAMV Federal Association: German Youth Welfare Prize 1998, German Children's Rights Prize 2002, VAMV Internet portal is "Selected Location 2011" in the competition "365 Landmarks in the Land of Ideas".

Federal chairwoman of the VAMV since 1967

  • Luise Schöffel : 1967 to 1976 (1914–1997), teacher, Herrenberg, Baden-Württemberg
  • Ursula Beutel: 1976 to 1977 (* 1912), teacher, Frankfurt a. M., Hesse
  • Sophie Behr : 1977 to 1981 (* 1935; † 2015), journalist, Bavaria / Berlin
  • Helga Lewandowsky : 1981 to 1987 (* 1930), subject teacher, MdL, Lower Saxony
  • Ebba Zimmermann: 1987 to 1990 (* 1940), administrative employee, Hamburg
  • Helgard Ulshoefer: 1990 to 1995 (* 1940), sociologist, Berlin
  • Carola Schewe: 1995 to 2001 (* 1955), journalist, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Edith Schwab: 2001 to 2015 (* 1949), lawyer, Speyer, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Solveig Schuster: 2015 to 2017 (* 1970), journalist, Berlin
  • Erika Biehn: 2017 to 2019 (* 1951), qualified social worker, Lippstadt, North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Daniela Jaspers: 2019 to today (* 1965), social pedagogue, Berlin

In 12 federal states, the regional associations maintain contact with ministries, organizations, institutions and parties in their federal state and specifically influence state legislation. They promote and support the establishment of local associations and contact points.

200 regional local associations and contact points serve single parents to exchange experiences and to provide mutual help and support. The offer of the local associations and regional contact points is based on the respective wishes and needs of its members on site. It ranges from discussion groups to information and advice to political campaigns to draw attention to local grievances - such as housing that is hostile to families and children and the lack of childcare facilities. The local associations carry out projects - mostly on childcare and the integration of single parents into the labor market.

Publications

  • Single parent - tips and information (23rd edition of the paperback 2019 and supplementary flyer Strong Family Law - Improvements for Single Parents 2019)
  • Effectiveness and benefits of flexible supplementary child care - model project on supplementary child care, emergency care and advice for single parent families in Germany, 2018
  • Single parenting tips and information in Arabic, (Paperback 2018)
  • Closing care gaps - opportunities and possibilities for supplementary child care (documentation for the annual specialist conference 2018)
  • Single parents earlier, today and tomorrow, successes, challenges and need for action (documentation for the annual specialist conference 2017)
  • Chronicle - 50 Years of the Association of Single Mothers and Fathers, 2017
  • Parents Agreement - Assuming Custody Responsibility Together (Agreement for Separate Parents), 2016
  • Guide to dealing with after separation and divorce (2015 in the 12th completely revised edition)
  • Information for single-parent families, association magazine (twice a year)
  • Old-age insurance in single parent families (documentation for the annual conference, 2015)
  • Early education for little minds: Quality in daycare centers in the tension between education for children and better compatibility (documentation for the annual conference, 2014)
  • Handout for advice - revision of custody rights for parents who are not married to each other, 2013
  • Single parent - tips and information in Turkish, (Paperback 2013)
  • No alternative - poor, poorer, single parent? "Family poverty over the course of life (documentation for the annual symposium, 2013)
  • Shared concern - shared responsibility? Rights and duties in everyday practice of different types of families (documentation for the annual conference, 2012)
  • Involve the child - but how? Subject position, child welfare and parental responsibility (documentation for the annual conference, 2011)
  • ABC of child poverty (2010)
  • Position paper. Case (s) management - single parents in SGB II (2010)
  • Climate change for single parents - single parent families as seismographs for social justice (documentation for the annual conference, 2010)
  • Guide to the new FamFG (September 1, 2009)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gitta Düperthal: "Those who are in the cycle can hardly get out ." In: young world . March 12, 2009, p. 8 ( jungewelt.de ).
  2. ↑ VAT campaign, www.vamv.de. VAMV Bundesverband e. V., accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ "Every child is worth the same" - petition against child poverty. VAMV-Bundesverband eV, accessed on July 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Publications