In guten Händen

How many parents does a child need? How can we reconcile the duty of care with the desire for freedom? And above all: how can we succeed in creating a good, stable network of attachment for our children? It is said that it takes a village to raise a child. However, in our modern world, it is not so easy to find this village. After all, we no longer live together in extended family units. And we do not want to entrust our children to just anyone. On the contrary: the more carefully we shape our family life as we see fit, the harder it becomes to entrust our children to others. So how do we achieve this: not keeping our children confined to our small family cosmos, while also not risking that all our efforts for secure attachment are undermined elsewhere? Nora Imlau, a mother of four herself, dedicates her new book to these pressing questions and legitimate concerns.