The Local Switzerland

Should stay-at-home parents in Switzerland be paid a salary?

Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:43:46 +0100

A new Swiss divorce ruling sparks a proposal that parents who stay at home and take care of children while the other spouse works, should be compensated by the government.

Despite changing attitudes, Swiss women still fear having a baby will harm their career

Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:54:21 +0100

Women in Switzerland still feel having a child may damage their job prospects, a study has revealed.

St Gallen school sports day cancelled due to over-competitive parents

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 12:03:51 +0200

An annual running race for primary school children at a St Gallen school has been cancelled this year after the authorities felt parents were too competitive about their children’s performance.

Guess which Swiss group lives at home longest?

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 11:02:24 +0100

Young Swiss people are living with their parents for longer – with most still at home at the age of 24. And one group stays with mother longer than the others.

Swiss court rules child ‘too pampered’ for school

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:16:59 +0100

A seven-year-old boy in the canton of St Gallen must attend a specialist school because his over-protective parents have left him unable to do things for himself, Switzerland’s highest court has ruled.

Mum must tell daughter who her dad is: Swiss court

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 17:15:12 +0200

A single mother who wanted to keep the identity of her daughter's father secret from the child has lost her final appeal and been ordered to reveal who he is.

Study: stereotypes still rule in Swiss family life

Tue, 06 Sep 2016 13:12:20 +0200

Women and men are still fulfilling stereotypical roles within family life, according to a new report by the canton of Geneva’s statistics office.

Federal fund aims to reduce childcare costs

Thu, 30 Jun 2016 13:58:56 +0200

The federal government wants to pledge 100 million francs over five years to ease the burden of childcare for working parents and encourage women back to work.

Swiss parliament rejects paternity leave plea

Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:26:13 +0200

The hopes of those campaigning in favour of fathers in Switzerland were dashed on Wednesday when the lower house of parliament rejected a motion to grant fathers two weeks statutory paternity leave.

Fathers should share parental leave, says commission

Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:30:35 +0200

Parents in Switzerland should get 24 weeks shared parental leave following the birth of their child, with part of it reserved by law for fathers, an advisory body has said.

Outrage as teacher uses suicide case in physics lesson

Mon, 21 Mar 2016 12:24:02 +0100

Parents and students have reacted with shock and anger after a teacher decided to use suicide as an example in a physics lesson.

Parents arrested after daughter found dead

Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:12:56 +0200

Police have arrested a German woman and a Swiss man after the body of their daughter was found in their home in Staad, in the canton of Saint Gallen, on Tuesday afternoon.

Parents to share child custody in Switzerland

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:38:15 +0100

The Swiss government has decided separated parents should automatically have joint custody of their children except in cases involving the specific protection of the child.