Freie Wähler on families

The Free Voters want to make Saxony the most family-friendly German state and reduce fees and charges for families. The Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) would be paid regardless of how children are cared for. Young parents in training or at university would get special support.

The Free Voters want to help families more. Families should pay fewer fees. All parents should get the state child-raising allowance. It should not matter who looks after the child. Young parents in training should get extra help.

Families would get relief above all on administrative fees for family matters. For young mothers and families still in training, a minimum income would be secured through housing benefit and the state child-raising allowance, without referring them to their own parents. The party wants to talk with business associations about more flexible working hours and childcare to make work and family easier to combine. A regular survey would find out what families need and why people do or do not start a family.

The Free Voters want to support families and seniors in daily life with money and infrastructure. This includes a Pflegewohngeld (housing allowance for people in care), an expanded family pass, local shops and doctors, and a statewide public transit ticket for all ages.

The Free Voters want to help families and older people in daily life. There should be a housing allowance for people in care. The family pass should offer more. Shops and doctors should be nearby. There should be one bus and train ticket for the whole family.

The income limit for the education and participation package would rise, and students and trainees would also qualify. Large vacant buildings would be converted, with public funding, into housing for different age groups and needs. The platform also lists local hospitals, general practitioners and specialists, first-aid stations, and mobile doctor's offices. In rural areas, youth centers and local children's and youth councils would be strengthened. Multigenerational projects and accessible multigenerational houses are meant to bring young and old together.

The Free Voters want to stop population aging and decline in Saxony and gear state policy toward starting families. The social affairs ministry would carry the word family in its name, and an image campaign would promote having children.

Few children are born in Saxony. The Free Voters want to change that. Politics should encourage people to start families. One ministry should get a new name with the word family. An ad campaign should promote families.

The platform cites a birth rate of 1.40 children per woman and an expected loss of more than 300,000 workers by 2030. The state would define its own family policy. The social affairs ministry would be renamed "Ministry for Family and Social Affairs," and the children's commissioner would become a family commissioner. A statewide campaign for starting families is planned. Projects run by family associations, along with studies and surveys, would get more support.