mission statement

The Swiss Association for Shared Parenthood is involved in issues relating to the relationships between mother, father and child. From the child's perspective, their parents are their natural primary caregivers responsible for their well-being—both mother and father.

That's why we want to preserve and strengthen the role of both parents - on a social, economic, political, legal and interpersonal level.

Shared parental responsibility is therefore the starting point of all considerations concerning the child. It is indivisible and therefore independent of whether the parents share a household or not.

As the Swiss Association for Shared Parenthood

• we encourage both parents' relationship with their children, even if the parents don't live together
• we create and strengthen societal awareness of the importance of co-parenting for the well-being of children
• we want to align the regulatory environment (laws, authorities, courts) with the preservation and promotion of joint parenthood
• we strive for equality for both parents in all political, legal, social and societal issues
• we promote all measures that support or even enable the exercise of joint parenthood in working life