Parental Responsibility

The main goal of our umbrella organization is to enable all children in Switzerland to have a stable relationship with both parents. Joint parenthood should also be possible if the parents no longer live together.

To this end, the founding organizations of the Swiss Association for Shared Parenthood (GeCoBi) presented their joint draft law on Fathers' Day 2007 on shared parental responsibility as the norm .

There are numerous good reasons for co-parenting even after a separation or divorce. We have compiled the arguments for this in a series of documents.

Our bill consists of two key elements that lie at the heart of shared parental responsibility:

In the two sections we present these central concepts. In addition, important scientific findings, on the basis of which the legal text was formulated, have been compiled there.

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