What is family? A secure promise of happiness? The end of freedom? The nucleus of the state? A cozy place for love in an otherwise cold world? A discontinued model?

What family is today and what they may be, can not easily answered themselves. If only because the life plans of people have become vary much: parents with a marriage certificate or without being married, single mothers with or without contact with the child's father, separated fathers, single fathers, traditional families with breadwinner and housewife, inflected traditional families with the main breadwinner and supplementary income earner , an alternative families Hausmann and Ernäherin ... parents are now a rather "colorful people."

At the same time, the roles of men and women and ideas about their roles in a family changed. Is the mother alone with the child? (How long anyway?) Or should quickly enter the profession as possible? (Which means as soon as possible?) How much "mother" needs a child?

Where does the "mother hen to" and where does the "raven mother"? At what age should a mother / father a child from his hands to give in? Are plain housewives innocent relic of the past? Emancipate are working mothers at the expense of their children? Or are they the double burden of family and work always stressed out because? Do modern women "everything under control" or are they (all the more so if they have children) of our disadvantaged in society?

If the men if they become a father, especially now in the occupation effort and long hours make possible? Or should they rather aim for a part-time? If they are more than money earner or more needed at home? Are they to their children, a tower of blocks with doer would rather build a house? How much "father" a child needs? To what extent are fathers to participate in the housework? House persons are now totally emancipated, or at least more "wimps"?

On all these issues our society has very different answers. Parents must therefore personally right way and try out for: How to live and can we family? What are my / our ideas of what others expect of me / us? The parents, friends, neighbors? Let noc hdazu, about our wishes and ideas to talk as a couple? What would be good for what?

 Parents often try and expectations while satisfying all the ideal images. This often leads to a balancing act of emotions and are a serious overload. The working mother and caring flagship Super Dad, who also lies down an impressive career-1a, which is only in the brisk entertainment novel.

If many of the everyday pressures and the sometimes arduous construction of a new equilibrium is characterized by, not everything can optimally implement and at the same time. All couples need time to gradually so as to make their family life, as it suits them.