CDU on families

The CDU wants to pass a new daycare law with more transparent funding early in the legislative term. It supports fully exempting families from daycare fees, provided quality does not suffer. It points to staff shortages, high sick rates and the level of fees as reasons.

The CDU wants a new law for daycare centers. It should come early. Families should pay nothing for daycare. Quality should stay good. There should be more and better trained staff.

The new law is meant above all to make funding flows clearer. To tackle the shortage of educators, the CDU relies on better training conditions, flexible work models and pay. It aims for a better staff-to-child ratio. Career changers should find it easier to enter the profession, while the share of staff with university degrees should rise. Daycare directors should get more time for educational leadership through a higher baseline of release time.

The CDU sees marriage and family as the foundation of social cohesion and parents as primarily responsible for their children. It wants to strengthen all family forms through counseling, childcare and better work-life balance, and to push at the federal level for family time accounts.

The CDU wants to help all families. Parents should be able to work less without losing money. Family time accounts should make this possible. Families should get more advice and help.

Family centers and multigenerational houses in cities and rural areas would be developed further and offer easy-access counseling. Families caring for relatives would get support. The "Healthy Children" network would be expanded for children up to age six. Digital services would make family benefits easier to access, and training for family midwives would be supported. Loneliness among young and old would be addressed.