What do the parties in Berlin say on families?

The AfD wants to support families with tax breaks and other aid, including family-based income splitting and a waiver of the real estate transfer tax for owner-occupied homes. Its aim is a higher birth rate, which it sees as necessary for the survival of the social security systems.

The AfD wants families to keep more money. Families should pay less tax. A family that buys a home to live in pays no real estate transfer tax. Students with a child also get help. The AfD wants more children to be born.

The AfD wants to pay a state child-rearing allowance to parents of children under three who look after their child themselves. At the same time, daycare is to stay free of charge and the number of places is to grow with demand. German is to be the mandatory language in daycare centers.

Some parents care for small children at home. The AfD wants the state to pay them for this. Daycare should stay free. There should be more daycare places. Everyone should speak German in daycare.

The AfD wants to promote stable marriages and partnerships so that separations happen less often. If parents do split up, both should care for the children, and child support should reflect how much time each parent spends on care. Single parents are to receive more support.

The AfD wants couples to stay together. If parents split up, both should care for the child. A parent who cares more for the child should pay less child support. Single parents should get more help.

The AfD wants youth welfare offices to take children out of their families less often and relies on in-home support and counseling instead. Parents are to get more rights and more legal help in dealing with the youth welfare office. The program justifies this with wrong decisions that, in the party's view, also hit intact families.

The youth welfare office can take children out of a family. The AfD wants this to happen less often. Families should get help and advice first. Parents should have more rights when dealing with the office.

The AfD wants to noticeably lower the number of abortions in Berlin. Expectant parents in need are to receive money and practical help so that they decide to have the child. The party rejects state support for abortions and their recognition as a human right.

The AfD wants fewer abortions. Parents in need should get money and help. That way they should decide to have the child. The AfD does not want the state to support abortions.

The AfD wants to make youth clubs and youth recreation facilities safe places. Crimes committed there are to be prosecuted regardless of political or cultural considerations. Youth centers that the party says have been taken over by left-wing radicals are to get a new concept.

The AfD wants youth clubs to be safe. Police should always follow up on crimes there. Where the offenders come from should not matter. Some youth centers should get a new concept.

The CDU wants to further improve child protection in Berlin. Youth clubs should have binding safeguarding plans, youth welfare offices should be better equipped, and doctors should be allowed to work together more closely when they suspect abuse. For the party, the child's welfare comes first.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth clubs should have fixed safety rules. Staff should be trained for this. Crimes should always be reported to the police. Doctors should be allowed to share concerns more easily.

The CDU wants to introduce a 'Berliner Chancenpass' (Berlin opportunity pass) as an app that bundles benefits for children and makes them digitally accessible. In the party's view, benefits such as the education and participation package often go unused due to red tape and lack of information.

Poor children have a right to help. But many do not get it. The CDU wants a 'Berlin Opportunity Pass'. It is an app. Kids find local offers there, like sports or tutoring.

The CDU plans a quality drive for daycare centers focused on language development and better-trained staff. It also wants more flexible and longer care hours, including 24-hour daycare for shift workers.

Daycare centers should get better. Children should learn language better there. Staff should get better training. There should be more daycare open at night. This helps people who work shifts.

The CDU places a focus on single parents. It wants to expand their support network, protect them from losing their homes, and offer free, flexible childcare and better career prospects.

The CDU wants to help single parents more. They should not lose their homes. There should be free childcare, also early and late. More public-sector jobs should allow working from home. The federal government should support them with more money.

The CDU wants to further support foster families, building on a start-up bonus it already introduced and reduced red tape. It plans more psychosocial help and will push at the federal level for Elterngeld (parental allowance) for foster families.

Foster families take in children in hard situations. The CDU wants to keep helping them. There should be more easy-to-reach mental health help. Foster parents should also get parental allowance. The CDU will push for this at the federal level.

The CDU wants all family benefits to be accessible digitally through the Berlin family portal, including automatic applications. Family service offices and family centers are to be expanded and public offices made more family-friendly.

Families should apply for help easily. Everything should work through one website. It is the Berlin family portal. Child benefit and parental allowance should be applied for automatically. Families should get served faster at public offices.

The CDU wants to expand and modernize youth centers, including their digital equipment. It sees them as places for meeting, orientation and prevention, and wants other public spaces to become more usable for young people.

Youth centers should grow and get modern. They should also have good computers and internet. Young people meet there. They get help there. Parks should get more outdoor workout equipment.

The Greens reject cuts to playgrounds, family centers and youth recreation facilities and want to keep these services. They also plan winter playgrounds, more say for young people and help for groups with special needs.

The Greens want to keep playgrounds and youth clubs. Berlin should not cut money there. There should be playgrounds for the winter. This helps families with little money. Right-wing extremists should have no place in youth clubs.

The Greens want to bring counseling and support to families instead of leaving parents to seek it out themselves. Family service offices, family centers at daycare centers and daycare social work are to be expanded. The platform bases this on the importance of the first months of life.

The Greens want better advice for families. The help should come to the families. It should be in many languages and without barriers. There should be more family offices close to home. They help with forms and with worries.

The Greens want to simplify signing up for a daycare spot. Every family is to receive the Kitagutschein (daycare voucher) without applying when the child turns one. Spots are to be allocated transparently and without discrimination.

The Greens want to make it easier to get a daycare spot. Families should get the daycare voucher automatically. It comes when the child turns one. A letter in several languages explains everything.

The Greens want stronger support for young people in difficult circumstances and see the state as responsible when parents cannot provide it. The focus is on mentally ill and neurodivergent children and teens, and on children who need intensive care.

Some children have a very hard time. For example, children with mental illness. The Greens want to give these children more help at school. The state should step in when parents cannot manage. Very sick children should get places to stay for a short time.

The Greens want to secure child protection counseling centers by law so that their funding no longer depends on the current budget situation. Training for family court judges and court-appointed child advocates would also be written into law.

The Greens want to protect children better. Counseling centers for child protection should have a fixed right to funding. Today the money depends on the budget. Family court judges should take training courses. That way they can understand children better.

The Left wants to keep and expand non-commercial meeting places for young people such as youth clubs, adventure playgrounds and libraries. Every district should have at least one self-managed youth space. It also rejects Bundeswehr recruiting aimed at young people in public spaces and wants to abolish police stops without suspicion.

Young people need places where they can meet. They should not have to pay there. The Left wants to keep and expand youth clubs and similar places. Every district should have one place that young people run themselves. Police should no longer stop people without a reason.

The Left wants to shield child and youth services from budget cuts and fund them long term rather than project by project. Money is to be earmarked, and staff are to be paid under collective agreements. The platform argues that relationship-based work with young people requires continuity.

The Left wants to protect services for children and young people. Money should no longer come only for short projects. Money meant for youth clubs should really reach the youth clubs. Staff should be paid under a union wage agreement.

The Left wants better protection for young people who drop out of youth welfare services when they turn 18. The transition into adult life is to be strengthened with new concepts and more funding. According to the platform, many so-called care leavers otherwise face homelessness in the medium term.

Some young people grow up in group homes or foster families. At 18, many of them lose their support. The Left wants to change that. It wants more money and better plans for this time. This should keep young people from ending up without a home.

The Left holds an open definition of family and wants to support all family types in everyday life. Single parents and foster families are to get better security. Berlin's family promotion law is to be implemented and developed further.

For the Left, family is where people care for each other. It wants to support all kinds of families. Single parents should get more help and more security. Foster families should not be worse off than other families. Family advice centers should get lasting funding.

The Left wants the state of Berlin to cover the full cost of Hilfen zur Erziehung (support services for children and families in difficult situations), arguing that district budgets are not sufficient. Youth welfare offices would regain more control, and the city would build up its own public services. Budget pressure should not determine what help an individual receives.

Some children and families in hard situations get special support. The Left wants the state of Berlin to pay for all of it. Youth welfare offices should decide more themselves again. The city should build its own services.

The Left wants more staff for the Regionaler Sozialer Dienst (the youth welfare offices' regional social service) so that each caseworker handles fewer cases. The child protection network would continue to be funded and developed. Facilities serving young people would be required to have protection plans against violence.

The regional social service is part of the youth welfare office. It helps families and protects children. The Left wants more staff there. Each worker should have fewer cases. Places for children should make plans to protect them from violence.

The Left wants to continue and expand Berlin's state programs for single parents. The platform argues that single parents, more than 85 percent of whom are women in Berlin, are especially often affected by insecure working conditions and low pay.

The Left wants to help single parents more. They should find it easier to finish school or job training later. There should be more part-time training places. Childcare should also be available early and late. Single parents who are refugees should get their own programs.

The Left wants to strengthen street social work in the districts and expand exit programs because, in its account, right-wing extremists are increasingly recruiting young people. Services against child poverty are to be better coordinated, since the program holds that social injustice makes young people more open to authoritarian thinking.

Right-wing extremists try to win over young people. So the Left wants more social work on the streets. There should be more programs to help people leave the far-right scene. Help against child poverty should work together better.

The SPD wants to give Berlin's districts more money for Hilfen zur Erziehung (support services for families raising children) and to change how the funds are distributed. It regards these services as a key part of child protection.

Some families need help with raising their children. The districts pay for this help. The SPD wants to give the districts more money for it. The money should be shared more fairly.

The SPD wants families to receive the Kita-Gutschein (daycare voucher) on their child's first birthday without having to apply. This is meant to ease the burden on families and daycare managers.

Parents in Berlin need a voucher for a daycare place. Today they have to apply for it. The SPD wants the voucher to arrive automatically on the child's first birthday.

The SPD wants to expand recreational facilities for children and teenagers and create free meeting places in public spaces. Young people should have places that belong to them and where they have a say. A yearly culture credit for young adults is to return.

Young people should get more places to meet. They do not have to pay there. The SPD also wants more leisure programs and better playgrounds. Young adults should get 50 euros a year for culture.

The SPD wants targeted support for single parents, including a state program for household help and discounted tickets. The Familienpass (family pass) is to be expanded. The program sees family as diverse and names single-parent, blended, rainbow and traditional families.

The SPD wants to help single parents more. They should be able to get help at home. The state pays part of the cost. There should also be cheaper entry tickets. The family pass should include more offers.