Familyship in the press

2026

Sarah (36) had a child without a partner: ‘I couldn’t and didn’t want to wait any longer.’
Medium: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (Plus Article)
Date: March, 12, 2026

Co-parenting: Becoming parents without a romantic relationship? Here’s how it works!
Medium: EDITION F
Date: March, 2, 2026

2025

Co-parenting in Bern – parents without a romantic relationship: Vera and Jonas are united by their desire to have children.
Medium: Der Bund (Switzerland)
Date: December, 23, 2025

Single man wanting children – Overcoming the hurdles of family planning without a partner
Medium: Eltern.de
Date: December, 1, 2025

Co-parenting: Being parents together without being in a relationship
Medium: Leben & erziehen
Date: November, 28, 2025

‘We are raising a child together – without being in a relationship’: Why co-parenting is a genuine alternative
Medium: Volksstimme
Date: October, 20, 2025

Being parents without a romantic relationship: opportunities and challenges of co-parenting
Medium: ZVW
Date: September, 18, 2025

Alternative family models: How co-parenting opens up new possibilities
Medium: Zeitungsverlag GmbH & Co Waiblingen KG
Date: July 20, 2025

Presenter Nova Meierhenrich on her desire to have children “I had the feeling I was broken, only half a woman” (Paywall)
Medium: DER SPIEGEL
Date: Issue 11/2025

Private sperm donation for a dream child?
Medium: Beobachter
Date: March, 06, 2025

2024

Co-Parenting – New paths to the family
Medium: 37° Life, ZDF
Date: October 06, 2024

Part-time parents: What’s behind the new “co-parenting” family model
Medium: Abendzeitung Munich
Date: July 31, 2024

When parents don’t love each other romantically (fee required)
Medium: DIE ZEIT
Date: July 22, 2024

Co-parenting: Being parents together without a romantic relationship
Medium: Life & parenting
Date: July 22, 2024

Co-parenting: How to become a father without a partner
Medium: Men’s Health
Date: June 19, 2024

Family is colorful and diverse
Medium: alverde-Magazin (dm)
Date: June 1, 2024

Lesbian couple fulfill their wish to have children in Denmark
Medium: Mannschafts Magazin
Date: March 13, 2024

Family unbound: how western society is redefining and assembling families through digital platforms
Medium: The Conversation – Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Date: March 12, 2024

A child without a steady partner: co-parenting makes it possible
Medium: Berliner Morgenpost
Date: February 20, 2024

A child without a steady partner: co-parenting makes it possible
Medium: Hamburger Abendblatt
Date: February 20, 2024

When your partner doesn’t want to be a dad
Medium: Stuttgarter Nachrichten (Plus-Artikel)
Date: January, 2024

Co-parenting: no relationship, but a child together
Medium: Berliner Morgenpost (Plus Artikel)
Date: January 17, 2024

Wanting to have children: Raising a child separately – what co-parenting is all about
Medium: Schwäbische Zeitung
Date: January 9, 2024

2023

Queer desire to have children – politically unwanted?
Medium: Podcast Clitoria’s Secrets
Date: December 24, 2023

How Christine and Gianni start a family without being a couple
Medium: Tagesschau
Date: December 18, 2023

When children are consciously created without romance
Medium: rbb24
Date: December 18, 2023

Co-parenting – an attractive new way of life?
Medium: rbb Inforadio
Date: December 18, 2023

Co-parenting – the desire to have children without a romantic relationship
Medium: rbbKultur
Date: December 13, 2023

How gay couples can have children
Medium: Men’s Health
Date: November 22, 2023

Family models: the new confusion
Medium: DIE ZEIT
Date: August 09, 2023

When friends become parents together
Medium: Weser Kurier
Date: August 06, 2023

“Do you want a child with me?”
Medium: DIE ZEIT
Date: August 02, 2023

Masculinities: Co-parenting
Medium: role-mag.ch
Date: June 22, 2023

Co-parenting: Everything you need to know about co-parenting without a romantic relationship between the parents
Medium: Kinderinfo.de

Baby yes, love no: How co-parenting can work
Medium: WAZ
Date: March 12, 2023

Baby yes, love no: How co-parenting can work
Medium: Westfalenpost
Date: March 12, 2023

Co-parenting: This is how responsible the family model is (Paywall)
Medium: Neue Rhein/Neue Ruhr Zeitung (NRZ)
Date: March 12, 2023

Let’s queer the family!
Medium: UNTER PALMEN Podcast
Date: February 26, 2023

Co-parenting: “We found our baby’s daddy on the Internet.”
Medium: Echte Mamas
Date: 07 February 2023

How many parents can a family tolerate?
Medium: Spiegel Online
Date: January 18, 2023

Raising a child separately – This is what co-parenting is all about
Medium: Swabian: the regional news portal of the Swabian newspaper
Date: 09 January 2023

2022

Co-parenting: Researcher for legal rules for new family form
Medium: Salzburger Nachrichten
Date: November 22, 2022

All the love! Love without sex – is that possible?
Medium: SWR Fernsehen
Date: November 15, 2022

Co-parenting: Researcher for legal rules for new family form
Medium: DerStandard (Austria)
Date: November 14, 2022

Podcast: Search partner to have children. No romance!
Medium: ZEIT ONLINE
Date: October 16, 2022

Getting pregnant without a partner – with Familyship
Medium: Founders League Podcast
Date 01 October 2022

Co-parenting: childbearing without a relationship
Medium: Schrödinger’s Katze – the Austrian science blog
Date: August 24, 2022

Child yes, love no: How responsible is “co-parenting”?
Medium: Salzburger Nachrichten
Date: July 13, 2022

Co-Parenting: Becoming Parents – Staying Single
Medium: SWR
Date: June 19, 2022 at 1:15 p.m. on ARD

New family form “Co-Parenting”: No love relationship, but a desire for children
Medium: Austria Press Agency
Date: 06 July 2022

Desired children for solo men – family planning without partner:in
Medium: arte
Date: 07 March 2022

Co-parenting: mom and dad are friends
Medium: DerStandard (Austria)
Date: January 17, 2022

2021

Visit to a rainbow family in Bonn: This is how two mothers and two fathers live with their two daughters
Medium: General Anzeiger
Date: 01 July 2021

Co-parenting: Personal experiences and tips of a mother with two co-parents
Medium: familie.de
Date: May 25, 2021

Becoming parents, being parents (TV report, from minute 6.49)
Medium: 3sat
Date: April 16, 2021

Co-Parenting: The Future of the Family?
Medium: M94.5
Date: March 24, 2021

History of love: love among the ancient Greeks and Romans
Medium: SWR2
Date: February 11, 2021

When friendship becomes family
Medium: Eltern.com
Date: February 10, 2021

2020

“The fact that we don’t love each other often makes it easier, too”
Medium: Süddeutsche Zeitung, Magazin
Date: December 19, 2020

Co-parenting: mom and dad don’t have to be a couple
Medium: queer.de
Date: November 15, 2020

If mom and dad never loved each other
Medium: Badische Zeitung
Date: October 19, 2020

Parents but not a couple – co-parenting as a new family model
Medium: blue NEWS
Date: October 18, 2020

When mom and dad are not a couple: Co-parenting as a family model
Medium: Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland
Date: October 17, 2020

Parents, but not a couple: co-parenting as a family model
Medium: Süddeutsche Zeitung
Date: October 15, 2020

Why a mother does not want a father for her child
Medium: MDR Aktuell
Date: 01 October 2020

My dream of the child
Medium: ZDF 37 Grad
Date: 01 September 2020
Note: Starting at minute 8, a Familyship family is portrayed in the film.

Co-Parenting How to start a family without being a couple (+ article)
Medium: Kölnische Rundschau
Date: July 31, 2020

When gay men have children
Medium: Der Spiegel
Date: July 12, 2020

App me a child
Medium: Der Freitag
Date: 07 July 2020

Co-parenting: When good friends become parents together
Medium: Deutschlandfunk Nova
Date: June 15, 2020

Do you want a child with me?
Medium: Süddeutsche Zeitung
Date: 01 June 2020

Co-Parenting and Familyship: Gay Mom Talking, the Podcast about Rainbow Families
Medium: Gay Mom Talking Podcast
Date: March 15, 2020

Co-parenting portal “Familyship”: Unusual families in Stuttgart particularly in demand
Medium: Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Date: March 13, 2020

Co-Parenting – How gay men fulfill their desire to have children
Medium: Die Welt
Date: 06 February 2020

2019

Co-parenting: Christine is bisexual, Gianni gay, together they have a daughter
Medium: Focus
Date: December 17, 2019

“As a man he wouldn’t be my type, but as a father” – Katharina has a son with a gay man she met online.
Medium: Jetzt (SZ)
Date: October 24, 2019

Familyship at the Austrian Start-up Show “2 Minutes 2 Millions
Medium: PULS4
Date: April 02, 2019

Child yes, relationship no: When strangers start a family
Medium: Augsburger Allgemeine
Date: January 26, 2019

Co-parenting: How singles who want children start families
Medium: ze.tt
Date: January 20, 2019

2018

Not a Couple – and Still a Child: Co-Parenting as a New Family Model
Medium: Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Date: December 10, 2018

Father instead of sperm donor: How co-parents come together
Medium: ntv.de
Date: November 11, 2018

How you can have a child without a partner
Medium: zweitoechter.de
Date: September 23, 2018

Co-parenting: the family that suits you.
Medium: Goethe Institute Poland
Date: August 27, 2018

She wanted a child, had no partner – that was the solution
Medium: Die Welt (WELT+)
Date: March 21, 2018

Baby To Go – Singles who want to have children: Co-Parenting and Social Freezing
Medium: Y Collective
Date: February 15, 2018

Co-parenting – family on friendly basis
Medium: queerpride.com
Date: February 16, 2018

When a child has three parents: How to easily find the right founders for every possible form of a family on the Internet today.
Medium: Berliner Morgenpost
Date: 03 February 2018

Starting a family without love and passion
Medium: Nordbayern.de
Date: October 24, 2018

Happy without a partner? – SWR Nachtcafé – guest among others Familyship founder Christine Wagner (from minute 29)
Medium: SWR Fernsehen
Date: September 15, 2018

2017

Co-parenting: new family ties.
Medium: Frankfurter Allgemeine
Date: September 17, 2017

Co-Parenting: Single parenting together
Medium: desired
Date: 02 August 2017

Help for gay men who want to have children: In Berlin’s only gay fathers’ group, Gianni Bettucci advises men who want to father offspring.
Medium: Berliner Morgenpost
Date: July 24, 2017

mom lesbian, dad gay
Medium: Volkstimme.de
Date: July 22, 2017

Father, Mother, Child: Co-Parenting as a New Family Model
Medium: Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Date: June 26, 2017

How the single woman found her gay prince
Medium: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF)
Date: 07 May 2017

Co-parenting as a family model: Why it doesn’t take love or sex to have children
Medium: VICE
Date: April 20, 2017

New trend: co-parenting – family? Yes, but without sex!
Medium: Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Date: 06 March 2017

Desire to have children: “People say to me: No children? Then you didn’t really want it!”
Medium: ZEIT ONLINE
Date: January 19, 2017

Co-parenting: raising children alone together
Medium: ZEIT ONLINE
Date: January 19, 2017

2016

Mother, Mother, Father, Child: Parental happiness for lesbians and gays:
Medium: ZDF 37 Grad
Date: October 19, 2016

Co-Parenting: Having Children Without Love
Medium: Kurier.at
Date: September 29, 2016

Co-parenting: When friendship becomes family
Medium: Eltern.com
Date: September 21, 2016

Parents yes, love no: co-parenting
Medium: WDR, FrauTV
Date: September 16, 2016

Co-Parenting: Two Dads, One Mom
Medium: Frankfurter Allgemeine
Date: September 10, 2016

Co-parenting: Mom and dad are friends
Medium: Tiroler Tageszeitung
Date: August 25, 2016

Parents: Ils voient la vie autrement (from minute 34)
Medium: France2
Date: 01 July 2016

dpa story: “Co-parenting” family model
Medium: dpa
Date: 01 April 2016

Homosexual parents mother lesbian, father gay
Medium: Berliner Zeitung
Date: March 21, 2016

Founder of the week: Familyship
Medium: startingup
Date: January 21, 2016

2015

Starting a family on the web
Medium: Deutsche Welle
Date: August 24, 2015

Lesbian and gay parents: the dream of having their own child
Medium: Der Tagesspiegel
Date: 01 July 2015

2014

Help for self-help: How do I find the right gay father? Familyship wants to help with the search
Medium: L-MAG
Date: December 25, 2014

Mother, co-father & child: starting a family on a friendly basis
Medium: Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Date: June 22, 2014