In children's homes, children and young people who have no parents or do not receive regular care in their parents' home find a home.
The reasons for accommodation in a children's home are different:

• the death of both parents
• a child does not receive the necessary attention and care from his family
• Parents don't feel up to the responsibility of raising a child

The children and young people live in residential groups in the children's home and are intensively cared for. The focus is on the pedagogical support of both school development and social coexistence as well as the organization of leisure time.

Children's homes basically strive to pave the way for their protégés to become a "normal" family - if possible, reintegration into their own family.
If the parents have died or a child has been officially approved for adoption, the children's home tries to place it with a foster family or adoption family.