What do the parties in Rhineland-Palatinate say on families?

The AfD wants to change the content of the mandatory counseling before an abortion and give mothers more support during pregnancy and after birth. In the platform's view, the counseling has often become a mere formality that says too little about the consequences of an abortion and about available help.

Women must go to counseling before an abortion. The AfD says this counseling is often too shallow. It wants to change it. Women should learn more about consequences and help. Mothers should get more support.

The AfD wants to raise the quality of daycare centers (Kitas). Municipalities are to get more help with building new ones, and the state would pay for additional childcare workers. This is meant to expand all-day care and prevent sudden closures.

The AfD wants better daycare centers. Towns should get more help to build them. There should be more childcare workers. The state should pay for them. Centers should stay open longer and not close suddenly.

The AfD wants to extend reimbursement of school travel costs to upper secondary students and those in their first vocational training. The state would cover the extra costs for municipalities. This is meant to ease the financial burden on families.

Parents today get money back for younger children's trips to school. This does not apply to the upper grades. The AfD wants to change that. Trainees in their first apprenticeship should get it too. The state should pay.

The AfD wants to create more regional child protection services that help children after sexual violence or abuse. Every city and every county is to have at least one easily reachable contact point.

Child protection services help children who have suffered violence. The state has 16 of them today. The AfD wants more. Every city and county should have at least one. Children should not have to travel far.

The CDU wants to renovate daycare centers, create new places and hire more qualified staff. Opening hours are to be reliable so that parents can balance family and work. Daycare is to remain free of charge permanently.

The CDU wants to repair and modernize daycare centers. There should be more places and more staff. Daycare centers should be open reliably. Parents should still pay nothing for daycare.

The CDU wants more staff, smaller groups and longer opening hours in daycare centers and wants to expand vacation care statewide. Every new law is to be checked for its effects on families. Single parents are to get targeted support.

The CDU wants more staff in daycare centers. Groups should be smaller. Opening hours should fit parents' working hours. Every new law will be checked: Does it hurt families?

The CDU wants to expand child protection with a statewide strategy, a state competence center and Childhood Houses in every region. Prevention is to start early, for example through parenting courses, school social work and counseling centers.

The CDU wants to protect children better. Youth offices, schools and police should work together more closely. Every region will get a Childhood House. Children who have suffered violence get help there.

The Greens want to scrap daycare fees for children under two as well and make it easier to combine family and work. At the federal level, they are pushing for child sick pay at full wage level and a reform of Elterngeld (parental allowance).

The Greens want daycare to cost nothing. This should also apply to children under two. Parents should be able to combine work and family better. Fathers should also take longer parental leave.

The Greens call for abolishing Ehegattensplitting, the joint tax assessment of married couples. They also want to ease the burden on families with a family box at birth, an automatically available family card, and lower taxes on children's products.

Married couples often pay less tax today. This is called Ehegattensplitting. The Greens want to end it. Parents should get a box with important things when a baby is born. Things for children should be taxed less.

The Greens want no child to grow up in poverty and will push at the federal level for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit) and more money for education and participation. They also want children's right to political participation written into the federal Basic Law and the state constitution.

The Greens want to end child poverty. They want a basic child benefit. That is money from the state for children. Children should also have more of a say. This right should be written into the constitution.

The Greens want to expand and better connect counseling and support services for families in difficult situations. Early intervention is to last longer, and parents with disabilities as well as young people leaving youth welfare care are to get more support.

Some families get into trouble. The Greens want to help them faster. There should be more places that give advice. More family midwives are planned too. Parents with disabilities should get more help in daily life.

The Greens want to protect children better against violence and sexual abuse. By 2029 at the latest, every institution working with children is to have a mandatory protection plan, and the state pact against sexualized violence is to be implemented.

Children should grow up without violence. Schools, clubs and summer camps should have a protection plan by 2029. The plan says how children are kept safe there. Children who were harmed should get more help and advice.

The SPD wants to conclude a pact for greater reliability in daycare centers (Kitas) with providers and other partners. The goals are a place for every child, enough well-trained staff, strong center management and dependable opening hours.

The SPD wants families to be able to rely on daycare. Every child should get a place. Daycare centers should have enough staff and stay open reliably. The SPD wants to make a pact with daycare providers. A pact is a firm agreement.

The SPD pledges that parents will continue to pay no fees for daycare for children aged two and older. The Kita-Zukunftsgesetz (the state's daycare law) is to be revised in the next term, with less red tape and more time for center managers.

Daycare is free for parents today once a child is two years old. The SPD wants to keep it that way. It also wants to improve the daycare law. There should be less paperwork. Daycare managers should get more time for good programs.

The SPD wants to expand contact points for families and deploy family guides who mainly help poor families claim the benefits they are entitled to. An Aktionsplan Familie (family action plan) is meant to make everyday support more targeted.

The SPD wants to give families more advice and help. Family guides should help poor families. They show which benefits a family can get. There should also be an action plan for families.

The SPD wants to better protect children growing up in especially difficult circumstances and expand the network of child intervention centers for that purpose. The effort against sexual violence toward children is to continue.

The SPD wants to protect children better from violence. There should be more help centers for affected children. Experts should work together more closely. The fight against sexual violence toward children goes on.

The SPD wants family law that reflects different kinds of families. This includes updated adoption and parentage law and legal recognition of rainbow families. Every child should have two legal parents from birth.

The SPD wants to change family law. Two married women should both count as mothers right away. Unmarried same-sex couples should also be allowed to adopt. Every child should have two legal parents from the start.

The SPD wants to involve children and young people more in decisions and treats youth policy as a task for all policy areas. The Landesjugendbeirat (state youth advisory council) is to be strengthened, and youth work is to receive more funding.

The SPD wants young people to have more of a say. The state youth advisory council advises the government. It should become stronger. Youth work and holiday camps should get more money.