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Survey Finds German Parents Under Strain, Most Concerned About Teens’ Media Use and School Readiness for the Future

The Körber-Stiftung poll highlights heavy daily pressure on families alongside a strong push for shared responsibility in teaching media literacy.

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Overview

  • 79% of parents of 12–18-year-olds report feeling burdened in everyday life, with 28% saying they feel strongly burdened.
  • Children’s media consumption is the top parental worry at 50%, outranking low motivation (29%) and poor grades (23%), with fathers slightly more concerned than mothers.
  • Geopolitics weighs heavily on households as 54% cite wars and crises as a major strain, alongside too little time for themselves (51%), for partnerships (37%), and financial worries (36%).
  • Parents judge schools as falling short on future-relevant skills, with 72% saying schools do not adequately prepare youths for societal and global challenges, and 53% calling for joint school–family media-literacy efforts.
  • Related YouGov polling from June reports school-related tasks remain unequally distributed, with 47% seeing mothers as primarily responsible and 67% of women saying they carry that load (commissioned by Studienkreis/GoStudent).