AfD on families

The AfD wants to exempt working families with low and middle incomes from certain costs at educational institutions, such as school lunches. They are also to receive tax relief through child tax allowances. The program sees an unfairness compared with families who receive welfare benefits.

Some families work but earn little. They get no help from the state. The AfD thinks this is unfair. These families should not pay for school lunch. They should also pay less tax.

In the AfD's view, such families often have a lower standard of living than families on benefits because they pay high rents and receive no support. Free school lunch is given as an example of the cost exemptions. The AfD also backs tax relief for these families through child tax allowances.

The AfD wants mandatory medical checkups for children, with compliance monitored. Before starting school, children should attend a daily children's group for a year, compulsorily if their German is lacking. It also wants to improve staff-to-child ratios in Hamburg daycare, which it calls the worst in Germany.

Children should see a doctor regularly. The AfD wants to make these checkups required. Doctors should also look for signs of abuse. Before school, children should join a group for one year. Children with poor German must go to kindergarten.

According to the program, Hamburg has the worst staff-to-child ratios in early childhood education nationwide, which should be improved. Doctors should check developmental progress and warning signs such as indications of abuse. Where problems are found, youth welfare offices should be able to issue instructions to parents. The program considers contact with peers important for socialization.

Parents who care for their child at home during the first three years should receive compensation of at least half the cost of a daycare place. The AfD justifies this with freedom of choice and respect for domestic caregiving; daycare quality should also improve, with no more than six children per caregiver.

Some parents care for their small child at home. The AfD wants to pay them for it. They should get at least half of what a daycare spot costs. Parents should be free to choose. In daycare, one caregiver should look after six children at most.

The program considers household and childrearing work, traditionally done by the housewife, highly valuable to society and undervalued today. Parents, whether men or women, who stay home for childcare or caring for relatives should be treated equally, financially and socially, with those using state-funded facilities. For the AfD, freedom of choice means strengthening both family and institutional care. Daycare centers should have more and better-trained staff, with a maximum of six children per caregiver.

The AfD wants families to be able to live on one full-time income and to give families priority when lowering taxes and levies. It seeks a return to traditional family values, with the family as the first source of support in hard times.

The AfD wants one salary to be enough for a family. Families should pay less in taxes and fees. Families should be able to save and buy a home again. Families should help each other in hard times.

According to the program, both parents in most big-city families currently have to work. Families should again be able to build savings and finance property. The AfD wants to renovate playgrounds and parks, build separated footpaths and bike lanes, and create enough daycare places. Working life should be better aligned with family life, and parents should get more credit in the pension system. In the spirit of subsidiarity, the family should again be the first line of mutual support rather than relying on state benefits.

The AfD wants mothers and fathers to receive full state support even after a family breaks up. Its child-friendly measures should also apply in full to single parents, and fathers should not be disadvantaged in custody and child support law.

Some families break apart. Mothers and fathers should still get help from the state. Single parents should not be treated worse. Fathers should be treated fairly in custody law. The mother's role stays important too.

The program acknowledges that families can break apart due to difficult circumstances. The AfD rejects discrimination against single parents. The child-friendly measures proposed earlier in the program should benefit them without restriction. At the same time, the party wants to remove disadvantages for fathers in custody and support law without denying the importance of the mother.