AfD on families

The AfD presents the family of father, mother and children as the ideal and rejects adoption rights for same-sex couples. It justifies this with a child's right to a father and a mother. It also opposes extending the so-called minor custody right and adding children's rights to the Basic Law.

The AfD wants to strengthen the family of father, mother and children. Two men or two women should not be allowed to adopt children. The AfD says children have a right to a father and a mother. It rejects separate children's rights in the constitution.

The platform opposes what it sees as ideological attempts to devalue the traditional family and wants to curb the public emphasis on "rainbow families." Children should be able to experience father and mother in their difference as man and woman. The AfD rejects extending the minor custody right (limited custody for non-parents) to more people, because it holds that parenthood cannot be expanded at will. It rejects children's rights in the Basic Law because it sees them as weakening parental rights and considers children already protected by existing fundamental rights.

The AfD wants to encourage young people in Bavaria to start families and to ease their financial burden, rather than responding to demographic change with immigration. It stresses the protection of unborn life and rejects classifying abortion as a human right.

The AfD wants more young people in Bavaria to have children. Families should have to pay less. The AfD does not see immigration as the right answer to low birth numbers. Abortion should not become a human right. Pregnant women in need should get help.

In the AfD's view, large-scale immigration is not suited to offsetting the aging of society; instead, people should start families and receive financial relief. The party invokes the right to life and human dignity, which it also attributes to the unborn child. Women with unwanted pregnancies are to receive special support from the state and society so that they can decide in favor of the child. The AfD wants to oppose hostility toward children in any form.

The AfD wants parents to be able to choose between caring for their children themselves and using daycare or childminders without financial pressure. To that end, the Bavarian Familiengeld (family allowance) would be raised and working parents would pay less tax. The platform justifies this with the importance of the bond with parents in the first years of life.

Parents should choose freely: care for the child at home or use daycare. Money should not stand in the way. The AfD wants to raise the Bavarian family allowance. Working parents should pay less tax.

According to the platform, care of young children by their parents should receive the same level of support as care outside the family. The tools it names are a higher Bavarian Familiengeld and tax relief for all working parents. The AfD considers the first three years of life decisive and is critical of daycare for children under three, which it often describes as mere custody. The education chapter adds that parents should be supported in caring for their children at home until the age of four.

The AfD wants fathers to remain fully involved in raising their children after a separation. Separation maintenance should rely more on personal responsibility, and serious misconduct within a marriage should affect the consequences of divorce. Single parents should receive support, without this family model being promoted as an ideal.

The AfD says children need both parents after a breakup. Fathers should be fully involved in raising them. Very bad behavior in a marriage should matter in a divorce. Single parents should get help.

The platform calls for ensuring that fathers take a full part in raising their children. For maintenance during separation, it relies more on personal responsibility. Fault-based divorce is not to return, but serious breaches of solidarity between spouses should count when the consequences of divorce are set. Disputes should be settled without court proceedings where possible, which the platform describes as costly and stressful. The AfD wants to support single parents so that strokes of fate do not cause social decline, while rejecting the portrayal of single-parent families as a normal or desirable way of life.