Study paper from 2014 in the field of Education - Educational Psychology, grade: 1.7, Justus Liebig University Giessen, course: Educational Career Biographies, language: German. Abstract: "When we talk about the relatives of mentally ill individuals, we usually think of parents, occasionally partners and siblings, but rarely of the children of those affected. However, mentally ill individuals do have children, and these children are significantly impacted by the mental illness of their mother or father. While parents and partners have managed to make their voices heard, the children and their fate as relatives have long remained silent" (Lenz 2005, p. 73). However, in recent years, particularly the children of mentally ill parents have been increasingly considered in psychiatric and psychosocial research.