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GERMANY, ffs. On 1 February 2005 the Forum Stand up for the Family invited guests from politics, the economy and science, the media and society to Mainz for a discussion by a panel of experts in the ZDF. The occasion was the presentation of a survey conducted by the Allensbach public opinion research institute on behalf of the FORUM STAND UP FOR THE FAMILY in Autumn 2004. Its subject: "Do you need a family in order to be happy?"
The survey revealed some surprising results, which the FORUM STAND UP FOR THE FAMILY wants to discuss with selected speakers on this day. The findings clearly contradict the problematic picture of the family that is often shown in public: the family – both the family of origin and the self-founded family – is still the means to find happiness. The majority of families with children say that they are very happy. It has never happened before that so many people have lived in such close family relationships as they do today, while the ‘"vertical" relationships between the generations grow in importance.
The meeting of the Forum "Stand up for the Family" with Karl Cardinal Lehmann, Wilhelm Haumann (Allenbach Institute), Prof. Hubertus Brantzen (Forum Stand up for the Family) Ursula von der Leyen (CDU, Lower Saxony Minister for Families), Prof. Udo di Fabio (Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court), hosted by Gundula Gause of the ZDF, will be transmitted live and in full at 3 p.m. in the Phoenix programme. It is planned that extracts will be transmitted in the news roundup on 1 February.
The FORUM STAND UP FOR THE FAMILY is an all-party and interdenominational union of people who want to actively influence the future of family and generation relationships.
The work of the Forum essentially consists in carrying out projects that meet its goals.
In order to carry out its projects, the FORUM STAND UP FOR THE FAMILY seeks co-operators from every section of society. The Trustees of the Forum are Cardinal Karl Lehmann, President of the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference; Manfred Koch, President (retired) of the Evangelical Church in Germany; Dr Ursula von der Leyen, Minister for Social Affairs, Women, Families, and Health in Lower Saxony; Gundula Gause, journalist and presenter; Markus Schaechter, Director of ZDF; Prof. Norbert Walter, Chief Economist of the Deutschen Bank AG.