CDU on families

The CDU wants to support families in every form and make it easier to combine family and work. Single parents are to get tax relief at the federal level and more counseling and easier access to help in the state.

The CDU wants to help families. This applies to all kinds of families. Parents should be able to combine work and family. Child care should be good and affordable. Single parents should pay less tax and get more advice.

The program describes the family as the core of society and as the place where people take lasting responsibility for one another. Parents are to decide for themselves how to organize family life. Statewide, good and affordable child care remains a main concern, and couples who are unable to conceive are to keep receiving financial support. For single parents, who the program says make up more than a quarter of families in the state, the CDU wants federal tax relief, more counseling and networking services, and easier entry into the job market as a priority.

The CDU wants to protect children better from violence, especially sexual violence, and to fund child protection centers and outpatient clinics for that purpose. Youth associations and open youth work are to receive lasting, predictable support.

The CDU wants to protect children better from violence. There should be more child protection centers. Children and teens should have more of a say. Youth work should get steady funding.

Child protection centers and child protection outpatient clinics are to be set up and secured for the long term. The office of the commissioner for children and youth is to be strengthened, and specialized counseling centers expanded. The CDU wants to strengthen young people's rights through age-appropriate participation formats and reliable youth welfare services. For youth work, a new master plan for youth education centers and a revised Jugendpauschale (flat-rate youth funding) are planned.