Despite sinking birth rate: Number of the care children in child villages constantly

Professor Dr. Rainer Geiling, managing director of the Albert Schweitzer federation of the child villages and family works, Berlin. - in the meantime above all older children and young person come

Professor Dr. Rainer Geiling, managing director of the Albert Schweitzer federation of the child villages and family works, Berlin: Although the number of the children and young people in the Federal Republic sinks, sinks the number of the children and young people who can be cared for from juvenile welfare service to not.

In the Federal Republic become family stability less and less secured. Knappe public budgets Geilings permit only niedrigschwellige initiatives like ambulatory assistance and consultation in opinion, which would seize unfortunately rarely. Many children must be cared for therefore still stationarily. For example in a child village.

The age cut in the child villages shifted however: Above all young people are integrated today into the housing groups. Often they have a longer juvenile welfare service Biografie behind itself. Thus they make particularly high educational demands against their home parents. Hardly more children grow up from the crawling age in such spare families.

In the child village they become acquainted with family everyday life. Differently than in the children's home they live together around the clock with their pair of home parents and group of brothers and sisters. Thus they experience constant proximity and develop relations. The family housing group worked satisfactorily also with difficult cases as particularly good educating surrounding field , reports Geiling. The children develop there to independent adults.

1957 were created the first Albert Schweitzer Kinderdorf. The organization is increasingly with the family works: Responsible person families live then instead of in classical villages with their physical children and care children decentralized in individual houses.

Contact Professor Dr. Rainer Geiling, Berlin

Email: geiling@albert-schweitzer.de
Telephone: 030 - 20 64 9117

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