Publication

Family related policy is still an insignificant topic for the media, two years after the last election. While health as a topic has seen an increase in coverage since 2002, families and children in general have been covered less and less. During this continuous period of lack of reports, print media and TV news programmes portray "one big family". Between 2001 and 2004, family related policy had on average only a 7% share of reporting on the social state of the nation in Germany.