What do the parties in Saarland say on families?

The AfD wants to create a state child-rearing allowance (Landeserziehungsgeld): parents who care for their child at home during its second and third year would get 500 euros a month. The platform argues that daycare places are heavily subsidized while care at home is not.

The AfD wants a new payment for parents in Saarland. Parents would get 500 euros a month. In return, they care for their child at home in its second and third year. The AfD says parents should be free to choose.

The AfD calls for considerably more staff in public daycare. In the platform's view, the ratio of trained staff to children in Saarland falls far short of what experts consider necessary.

The AfD wants more staff in daycare centers. Then each staff member looks after fewer children. The children get more attention. The staff have less stress.

The AfD wants to make work and family easier to combine and give families more time together. To that end, working life should become more flexible. In the platform's view, families today have to adapt too much to the demands of the economy, with women and children suffering most.

The AfD wants parents to combine work and family more easily. Work should become more flexible. More people should be able to work from home. Mothers should find it easier to return to their jobs.

The AfD wants to ease the financial burden on families, including through family income splitting at the federal level and child allowances for social insurance contributions. The platform sees families as disadvantaged compared with childless people in taxation and pensions.

The AfD wants families to pay less in taxes and contributions. People with children should be better off at tax time. Raising children should count more for pensions. The school bus should also be free for the upper grades.

The AfD calls for stronger protection of children from abuse and counts abortion among this, alongside child sexual abuse and child marriage. Public money for facilities that perform abortions is to be eliminated. The party invokes Article 2 of the Basic Law.

The AfD wants to protect children better. It also means unborn children. Clinics that perform abortions should get no more money from the state. Pregnant women should get counseling and help. Schools should talk about protecting life.

The CDU wants to do away with parental fees for daycare altogether, after, by its own account, already initiating their halving by 2022. Quality and reliability of care, especially at the start and end of the day, are also to be priorities.

Parents pay money for daycare today. The CDU wants daycare to cost nothing. Care should also be good and reliable. That includes early mornings and late afternoons.

The CDU wants to reduce group sizes in nurseries and kindergartens and back this up with substitution rules and a reserve pool of educators. Together with municipalities and providers, a long-term strategy for training and recruiting staff is to be drawn up.

Daycare groups should have fewer children. There should be a reserve of educators for when someone is absent. Other experts should also help in daycare. Every daycare center should have one French-speaking staff member.

The CDU wants to extend the partnership months in Elterngeld (parental allowance) and give preference to companies that offer flexible hours and remote work. An expanded right to return to full-time work is meant to ease re-entry and significantly raise women's employment rate in Saarland.

Parents should be able to combine family and work more easily. The CDU wants couples to get parental allowance together for longer. Companies with flexible hours and remote work should get advantages. People working part-time should be able to return to full-time more easily.

The CDU wants to build a competence center for child protection in health care and offer child protection clinics as widely as possible. Routine child check-ups are to become more binding beyond the age of six as well.

Children should be better protected from violence and neglect. The CDU wants to build an expert center for child protection. There should be special clinics for children everywhere. Health check-ups should be more of a duty for older children too.

The CDU wants to review and simplify all subsidy programs for families so that more families can buy a home. Funding for family vacations for low-income households is to be increased, and networked services for families are to grow.

Families should be able to buy their own home more easily. The CDU wants to make the support for this simpler. A website should show all the programs. Families with little money should get more help for vacations.

The CDU wants to raise funding for youth work, vacation camps and out-of-school programs over the long term and make it permanent. The number of funded positions for youth education officers is also to keep rising.

The CDU wants to give more money to youth work. The money should keep coming over time. There should be low-cost vacation camps for children and teens. Clubs should get more paid experts for youth education.

The CDU advocates a family working time model in which saved-up working time can be used for family or caregiving without real financial loss. Pilot projects are also meant to make it easier for people needing care to live with the families who look after them.

Parents and family caregivers should have more time for family. They should be able to use saved-up working time for this. They should lose hardly any money. The CDU also wants to fund new kinds of help for care at home.

The SPD wants to scrap parental fees for daycare, which have already been halved, completely. Education is to be free at every age; this is meant to improve educational opportunity and make it easier to combine family and work.

Parents pay money for daycare today. The SPD wants to end these fees completely. Education should be free for everyone. This goes from daycare up to a master craftsman title or a university degree.

The SPD wants to create more nursery and daycare places, renovate existing facilities, and raise quality. Training for childcare workers is to be paid and free of tuition, and the staff-to-child ratio is to improve.

The SPD wants more places in nurseries and daycare. Old daycare buildings should be repaired. People training as childcare workers should get paid and pay no tuition. Each worker should look after fewer children.

The SPD wants to make it mandatory to involve children and young people in decisions at local and state level and to write children's rights into the state constitution. A child protection commissioner, more civic education and more money for youth work are also planned.

Children and young people should have more of a say. The SPD wants to make their involvement a duty. Children's rights should be in Saarland's constitution. There should be a commissioner for child protection. Youth work should get more money.