What do the parties in Brandenburg say on families?

The AfD wants to strengthen the family of father, mother and children and counter population decline with a family policy that encourages births. It wants to reduce the number of abortions through help for families, easier adoption, anonymous birth and baby hatches.

The AfD wants to strengthen families with a father, a mother and children. More children should be born. Women should get help so they do not have an abortion. Adoption should become easier. There should be enough baby hatches.

The AfD wants abortions to remain the exception and rejects declaring abortion a human right. Counseling should follow set quality standards and inform women about the stage of fetal development and possible long-term effects.

The AfD wants few abortions. Abortion should not become a human right. Counseling for pregnant women should be stricter. It should also explain possible effects.

The AfD wants to substantially reduce taxes and social insurance contributions for families so they can live on a single income. This includes family-based income splitting, a higher child allowance, and a refund of pension contributions at each birth.

The AfD wants families to pay less tax. Social insurance payments should also go down. A family should be able to live on one salary. Parents should get back 20,000 euros in pension payments per child.

The AfD wants to phase in a Familiengeld (family allowance) and offer families interest-free loans of 25,000 euros. The aim is to ease the burden on lower-income families and encourage people to have children.

The AfD wants a new family payment. Families should also get a loan without interest. The loan is 25,000 euros. With each child, parents pay back less.

The AfD holds up the family of father, mother, and children as the ideal and wants to end what it calls the "cult around rainbow families." It rejects extending limited custody rights to more people and adding children's rights to the constitution.

For the AfD, the best family is father, mother, and children. It does not want rainbow families to get special attention. No more than two people should have custody. Children's rights should not be added to the constitution.

The AfD wants to give single parents more support and reduce the effects of separation on children. Unmarried parents would automatically share custody from birth, and fathers should be able to have more contact with their children.

The AfD wants to help single parents more. Children should suffer less when parents split up. Unmarried parents should both have custody right away. Fathers should be able to see their children more often.

The AfD wants to introduce a Betreuungsgeld (care allowance) as wage replacement for parents or grandparents who care for children themselves in the first three years. Care at home should get the same financial support as daycare or childminders.

Parents should get money when they care for their small child themselves. This applies to the first three years. Grandparents can also get the money. Parents should choose freely between daycare and care at home.

The AfD wants to provide at least 750 million euros for building and renovating daycare centers and schools and to complete the reform of daycare law. Training for childcare workers should become more attractive without lowering standards; daycare content should reflect the majority of society.

The AfD wants to spend a lot on daycare centers and schools. It is at least 750 million euros. There should be more childcare workers. The AfD does not want daycare to deal with sexuality and minorities.

The AfD calls for attendance at public nurseries, including meals, to be free in order to ease the burden on parents. It also wants more flexible opening hours and new care options after after-school care ends.

Nursery care should cost parents nothing. The meals there should also be free. Daycare should be open longer and more flexibly. This helps parents who work.

The AfD wants to waive BAföG repayment for young parents in training or at university and extend the standard period of study. At universities, permanent positions, support programs and childcare are meant to make starting a family easier.

The AfD wants to help parents who study or train for a job. They would not have to pay back their BAföG. BAföG is state money for students and trainees. Parents would be allowed to study longer. Every university would have childcare.

The BSW wants to rewrite the state daycare law and give daycare centers and after-school care more funding and staff. Falling numbers of children should not lead to closures but be used to improve the staff-to-child ratio.

The BSW wants a new daycare law. Daycare centers and after-school care should get more money and staff. Each staff member should look after fewer children. Daycare centers should not close when there are fewer children.

The BSW wants early childhood education, including nursery care for the youngest, to be free. Lunch in daycare centers, after-school care, and elementary schools should also become free in order to ease the burden on families.

The BSW wants nursery and daycare to be free. Lunch should also cost nothing. This applies to daycare, after-school care, and elementary schools. Families should have to spend less money.

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 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.

The SPD wants to eliminate the parental fees that still exist, first in the Krippe (nursery for under-threes) and then in the Hort (after-school care). This is meant to ease the burden on families and, in the program's view, is a further step toward fully free education.

The SPD wants parents to stop paying for nursery care. After that, after-school care should also be free. This should save families money. Meals in daycare and school should stay affordable.

The SPD wants to help municipalities build daycare centers through an investment program, so that places from nursery to after-school care are available close to home everywhere. The legal entitlement to all-day care in elementary school is to be implemented, and family centers are to be kept and strengthened.

The SPD wants to give towns money for new daycare centers. There should be enough places nearby everywhere. Elementary school children should be able to get care all day. Family centers should keep advising parents.

The SPD wants to expand youth work and have the state cover a larger share of staff costs. It also wants to make voluntary service more attractive and give children and young people more say in local politics.

The SPD wants to spend more on youth work. The state should pay a quarter of staff costs. Young volunteers should get more pocket money. Children and teenagers should have more say in their town.