What do the parties in Bavaria say 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 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.

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.

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 CSU wants to keep the Bavarian Familiengeld (family allowance), regardless of whether a child attends daycare. Single parents are to receive a higher amount. The platform justifies this with families' freedom to choose between different ways of life.

In Bavaria, parents get a family allowance for small children. The CSU wants to keep paying it. It should not matter if the child goes to daycare. Single parents should get more money.

The CSU wants to set up 180,000 additional childcare places by 2028 together with the municipalities. At the same time, the quality of care is to improve and the profession of childcare worker is to become more attractive.

The CSU wants many more childcare places. By 2028 there should be 180,000 new places. The care should also get better. Childcare workers should get better pay.

The CSU rejects abolishing Ehegattensplitting (joint tax assessment for married couples), which it regards as a tax increase for married people. It wants to extend it into a "child splitting" through higher child allowances. At the federal level it also wants to simplify, expand and raise the Elterngeld (parental allowance).

Married couples often pay less tax through income splitting. The CSU wants to keep this. Parents should also get higher tax allowances for children. The parental allowance should go up and become simpler.

The Free Voters want to keep childcare free of charge and adjust the state child-raising allowance (Landeserziehungsgeld) for inflation. The final kindergarten year is to become mandatory, with compulsory pre-school classes in all kindergartens. More staff are to be recruited through shorter training and appropriate pay.

The Free Voters want childcare to stay free. The last year of kindergarten should be required. Every kindergarten should offer pre-school classes. Childcare workers should be paid better. Their training should be shorter.

The Free Voters want children and a career to be easy to combine. Among other things, they call for a right to switch between part-time and full-time work and for childcare geared to parents' needs.

Parents should be able to combine children and work. People who work less should be allowed to work full-time again later. Childcare should fit what parents need. Fathers should take parental leave too.

The Free Voters want to expand and fund a statewide network against violence toward children and young people. Children are to be better protected online, where the program sees new dangers emerging.

The Free Voters want to protect children better. There should be help against violence all over Bavaria. Children should be safer on the internet. Nobody should exploit children as influencers. Influencers promote things online.

The Greens want to support trips for children and young people in Bavaria. Families with very little money should also be able to go on vacation. To that end, the income limits of Bavaria's family vacation program would be raised.

The Greens want to support trips for children and young people. Poor families should be able to go on vacation too. Bavaria has a program that helps pay for this. More families should get this money.

The Greens want to anchor children's rights in the Bavarian constitution and expand protection from violence online and offline. A children's commissioner attached to the state government would publish a child protection report every year. The party cites Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The Greens want to protect children better from violence. Children's rights should be written into the Bavarian constitution. A new person in the government looks after child protection. That person writes a report about it every year.

The Greens want a youth center in every municipality and direct involvement of young people in decisions. Clubs and providers of out-of-school youth work as well as the Bayerischer Jugendring (Bavarian Youth Council) would be strengthened and reliably funded. Young people should be able to shape their free time as they wish.

The Greens want a youth center in every town. Young people should have a say in decisions. Clubs that do youth work should get more support. Rural areas should get more offers for queer young people.

The Greens want to make the rules on matching funds in child and youth services more flexible and less bureaucratic. Small providers in particular are meant to benefit. Youth centers would also be able to offer activities built around video games.

Youth service groups often must bring their own money to get funding. The Greens want to change that. Volunteer work and goods should also count. Youth centers should also get money for playing video games together.

The Greens want more and better daycare centers and plan an investment program and a skilled-staff program to get there. Opening and booking hours would be geared more closely to families' needs, for example for parents working shifts.

The Greens want more daycare places. Daycare centers should have hours that fit families better. This helps parents who work shifts. Daycare workers should earn more. There should be more staff for the children.

The SPD wants every Bavarian municipality to be able to offer young people places for leisure and recreation where they do not have to spend money. The state should also provide funding for youth hostels.

The SPD wants more places for young people. They should be able to spend free time there without spending money. Nobody should push them out. Bavaria should also give money to youth hostels.

The SPD wants to make daycare centers (Kitas) free of charge for all children, fund them better and set binding quality standards. It also wants more places in daycare, after-school centers and all-day programs to make it easier to combine work and family.

The SPD wants daycare to be free for all children. There should be more places in daycare and all-day care. Daycare centers should get more money. Fixed rules for good quality should apply to all centers.

The SPD wants to raise the quality of child and youth services through better training and working conditions for educational staff. More training and university places are meant to make the profession more attractive and bring in new skilled workers.

Daycare centers and youth services lack trained staff. The SPD wants to make work there better. There should be more staff for the children. There should also be more places for training.

The SPD wants to support families in emergencies quickly and without red tape. Preventive assistance, social work in schools, counseling and crisis services would be expanded so that families are supported from a child's birth until the child starts a career.

Some families need help. The SPD wants them to get this help quickly and easily. There should be more counseling and more social work in schools. There should also be more help in a mental health crisis.

The SPD wants to write children's rights into the Bavarian constitution and set up a children's rights agency. To fight child poverty, a Bavarian supplement would top up the federal Kindergrundsicherung (basic child allowance), and children would be better protected from violence.

The SPD wants to put children's rights into Bavaria's constitution. A new office should look after these rights. Poor children in Bavaria should get extra money. Children should be better protected from violence.