What do the parties in Saxony say on families?

The AfD wants the family of father, mother and children to be the guiding model again and wants to remove disadvantages for it. A positive image of family life is to be taught in daycare centers and schools. The platform justifies this with demographic change, whose causes the party wants to address.

The AfD wants to strengthen the family of father, mother and children. This model should be the example. Daycare centers and schools should show a good picture of family. Families should pay less in taxes and fees. The party hopes more children will be born.

The AfD wants to expand help for pregnant women in distress so that more of them decide to have the child. Counseling before an abortion that takes place only by phone or online is to be ended. The party rejects a fundamental right to abortion and wants current federal law to stay unchanged.

The AfD wants to give more help to pregnant women in need. More women should have their child. Counseling before an abortion should only happen in person. Counseling by phone or online would no longer be enough. The abortion laws should stay as they are.

The AfD wants to introduce a Saxon welcome payment of 5,000 euros per child to raise the birth rate. It would go only to parents who hold German citizenship alone and have lived in Saxony for at least ten years. Further conditions are completed training, a degree or employment.

The AfD wants to pay parents 5,000 euros for each new baby. Only parents with just a German passport would get the money. They must have lived in Saxony for ten years. They must have job training or be working. The money comes in three parts.

The AfD wants to raise the Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) from at most 300 euros today to between 750 and 1,500 euros a month and pay it until the child turns three. Parents would then be free to choose between caring for a toddler at home and using a nursery. Only parents with German citizenship alone and ten years of residence in Saxony would qualify.

Parents in Saxony get money if they care for their small child at home. Today that is 300 euros at most. The AfD wants to pay 750 to 1,500 euros a month. The money would be paid until the child turns three. Only parents with just a German passport would get it.

The AfD wants to raise the state subsidy for daycare centers and home-based childcare substantially and cap the municipalities' share of nursery costs at 50 percent. Staff-to-child ratios are to improve to 1 to 3 in nurseries, 1 to 7.5 in kindergartens and 1 to 12 in after-school care. Small village daycare centers are to be kept open through more flexible rules.

The AfD wants the state to give more money to daycare centers. Towns and villages should pay less. Each caregiver should look after fewer children. In nurseries that would be three children. Small daycare centers in villages should stay open.

The AfD wants to cap parents' daycare fees at 15 percent at first and abolish them in the long run, once the reformed state child-raising allowance has created a real choice of care. Training for daycare educators is to be paid and shortened. A bonus is meant to attract young educators to rural areas.

Parents should pay less for daycare. At first their share should be 15 percent at most. Later daycare should cost nothing. People training to be educators should be paid. Educators in rural areas should get a bonus.

The AfD wants to use the Bundesrat (federal chamber of the states) to reduce disadvantages for families in social insurance and to count child-raising and caregiving periods more toward pensions. Family support services are to be adequately funded to advise families in crisis. Trainees are to be spared the second-home tax.

The AfD wants to improve things for parents. Time spent raising children and caring for relatives should count more for pensions. Families in crisis should get good advice. Parents should find it easier to go to a health retreat with their child. Young people in training should not pay the second-home tax.

The AfD wants to offer all children in Saxon daycare centers and schools a free, healthy lunch. The platform justifies this with higher energy and food prices and with reducing social inequality. The "Obst und Milch" (fruit and milk) program is to be extended to all daycare centers and home-based childcare without complicated applications.

All children should get a free lunch at daycare and school. The meal should be healthy and warm. It should not depend on how much money the parents have. All daycare centers should also get fruit and milk. There should be less paperwork for this.

The BSW wants better funding and staffing for daycare centers (Kitas) and no increase in parental fees. In the long run daycare would be free, and lunch in daycare centers and elementary schools would cost nothing. Falling child numbers should be used to improve care, not to close centers.

The BSW does not want to raise daycare fees. Later, daycare should cost nothing at all. Lunch in daycare and elementary school should be free. Each staff member should look after fewer children than today.

The CDU wants parents who ask for it to get a childcare place for their child from the first birthday through the end of primary school. After-school care, primary schools, and all-day programs would be linked more closely, and daycare staff would be kept on even as the number of children falls.

Every child should get a childcare place if the parents want one. This applies from the first birthday to the end of primary school. After-school care and primary schools should work together more closely. Daycare staff should stay, even if there are fewer children.

The CDU wants parents to decide for themselves whether their children are cared for at home, in daycare or by a childminder, and plans to further develop the Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) for this purpose. At the same time, family support and childcare are to be expanded and single parents given relief.

Parents should choose how their children are cared for. That can be at home or in daycare. The state child-raising allowance should continue for this. The CDU wants more support for families. Single parents should also get more help.

The CDU rejects loosening the criminal-law rules on abortion in Section 218 of the German Criminal Code. Couples who are unable to conceive are to keep receiving financial help.

Section 218 is the criminal-law rule on ending a pregnancy. The CDU does not want to loosen this rule. Couples who cannot have children should still get money for treatment.

The Free Voters want to make Saxony the most family-friendly German state and reduce fees and charges for families. The Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) would be paid regardless of how children are cared for. Young parents in training or at university would get special support.

The Free Voters want to help families more. Families should pay fewer fees. All parents should get the state child-raising allowance. It should not matter who looks after the child. Young parents in training should get extra help.

The Free Voters want to support families and seniors in daily life with money and infrastructure. This includes a Pflegewohngeld (housing allowance for people in care), an expanded family pass, local shops and doctors, and a statewide public transit ticket for all ages.

The Free Voters want to help families and older people in daily life. There should be a housing allowance for people in care. The family pass should offer more. Shops and doctors should be nearby. There should be one bus and train ticket for the whole family.

The Free Voters want to stop population aging and decline in Saxony and gear state policy toward starting families. The social affairs ministry would carry the word family in its name, and an image campaign would promote having children.

Few children are born in Saxony. The Free Voters want to change that. Politics should encourage people to start families. One ministry should get a new name with the word family. An ad campaign should promote families.

The Greens want to reduce daycare costs for parents. They propose a cap on parent fees and advocate free lunch in daycare as well as a fee-free final daycare year. Daycare costs should be shared fairly among the state, municipalities and parents.

Parents should pay less for daycare. The Greens want a limit on the fees. Lunch in daycare should be free. The last year of daycare should be free too.

The Greens want minimum standards for child and youth services that apply across Saxony, because they see resources as unevenly distributed among counties. Youth work and youth associations would get reliable funding, and child protection would be expanded.

Youth services are not equally good everywhere in Saxony. The Greens want the same minimum rules for the whole state. Youth groups should get steady funding. Children should be better protected from violence.

The Greens want to expand child and family centers at daycare centers and schools across the state so that family education reaches all families easily. For them, family is wherever people take responsibility for one another, in all its forms.

Families should find advice and help easily. The Greens want more family centers in daycare centers and schools. Counseling should also be easy to reach in rural areas. For the Greens, all kinds of families belong.

The Greens want to scrap Saxony's Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) and redirect the money to reconciling family and work, especially daycare that also covers early and late hours. At the federal level they back a basic child allowance that reaches all children.

Saxony pays parents a state child-raising allowance. The Greens want to end this payment. The money should go to better daycare. Daycare centers should also open early and late. The Greens also want a basic child allowance for all of Germany.

The Left wants more support for single parents, who according to the platform are mostly women and often poor. A state action plan is to implement the results of a round table set up by the party's parliamentary group. A coordination office at state level would be added.

The Left wants to help single parents more. A state plan should make it easier for them to find work. There should be flexible child care and more advice services. A new state office should organize the help.

The Left wants to raise funding for child and youth welfare and youth work considerably and prevent cuts. These services are to be recognized as mandatory municipal tasks and secured everywhere. A new state youth welfare act is to enable inclusive youth services.

The Left wants more money for youth clubs and youth services. The state should not cut here. Towns should have to offer these services reliably. Staff should get permanent jobs with union-scale pay. Young people should have more places of their own to meet.

The Left wants children and young people in Saxony to get free lunches in daycare and school, free local public transit, and free access to cultural and sports facilities. It frames this as a matter of social justice. It also wants more public spaces for play, sports and youth culture.

The Left wants to help children and young people. Lunch in daycare and school should be free. Buses and trains should be free for them too. The same goes for music schools, libraries and sports facilities. There should be more playgrounds and sports areas.

The Left calls for a Kindergrundsicherung (basic child benefit) that lifts all children out of poverty. In the party's view, the version adopted by the federal government does not meet the original goal. In Saxony, the family pass and counseling for families are to be expanded.

The Left wants to fight child poverty. It calls for a basic child benefit. That is money from the state for children. No child should be poor anymore. The family pass should also help more people.

The Left wants to revise Saxony's state youth welfare law and bring it in line with changed federal law. Many groups are to take part in the reform, above all children and young people themselves.

The Left wants to renew the youth welfare law in Saxony. Many people should have a say. These include providers, associations and experts. Above all, children and young people should state their wishes.

The Left wants Saxony to push at the federal level for children's rights in the Basic Law and to write them into the Saxon constitution as well. This is meant to oblige politicians to consider the concerns of children and young people in all decisions.

The Left wants children's rights in Germany's constitution. They should also be in the constitution of Saxony. Then politicians must always think of children and young people. New laws should be checked first: What do they mean for young people?

The Left wants to strengthen child protection at all levels and fight every form of violence against children. Child and youth welfare services are to be equipped according to need. The party rejects placing children and young people in locked facilities.

The Left wants to protect children better from violence. There should be prevention and fixed protection plans. Youth welfare services should get enough money. Children and young people should not be locked up.

The Left wants to raise the allowance paid in the youth volunteer service and rejects cuts to volunteer services. Open and democratic youth work is to be supported, with better working conditions and higher pay for staff.

The Left wants a higher allowance for young people in volunteer service. There should be no cuts there. Youth work should get more support. The staff there should earn more.

The SPD wants to strengthen early childhood education and gradually improve staff-to-child ratios in nurseries, kindergartens, home-based childcare and after-school care. Social work in daycare centers and family centers are to be expanded, especially at sites with major problems.

The SPD wants better daycare centers. Staff should have more time for each child. There should be more social work in daycare centers. Centers with many problems should get special help.

The SPD wants to make work and family life easier to combine as a response to the labor shortage. This includes childcare close to home, more all-day schools, affordable care and four-day-week models.

The SPD wants work and family to fit together better. There should be childcare close to home. There should be more all-day schools. In hard jobs, a four-day week should be possible.

The SPD wants to give single parents more support with childcare, training and work, and bundle all measures in a “Pact for Single Parents.” The Landeserziehungsgeld (state child-raising allowance) is to be turned into a single-parent benefit.

Some parents raise their children alone. The SPD wants to help them more. The state's child-raising allowance should become a benefit for single parents. All the help should be part of one shared pact.

The SPD wants to abolish parents' fees for childcare entirely, arguing that education should be free of charge. Because childcare quality is also supposed to improve, it plans to proceed in stages, starting with a cap on fees.

Parents pay for daycare today. The SPD wants to get rid of these fees completely. This should happen step by step. First there should be an upper limit on the fees.

The SPD defines family as any shared way of life in which people care for and take responsibility for one another. All of these forms are to be accepted, supported and funded in Saxony.

For the SPD, there are many kinds of family. Family is where people care for each other. That is true with or without marriage. All families in Saxony should get help and support.

The SPD wants to better equip youth welfare offices and develop Saxony's child protection plan into an overall strategy across ministries. More contact points are also to be created for children who have experienced violence.

Children should grow up safe and healthy. Youth welfare offices should get more resources. Agencies and counseling centers should work together better. There should be more places to go for children who have suffered violence.

The SPD wants to turn Saxony's child and youth welfare law into a children and youth law that puts children's rights at the center. Politics and public administration are to be guided by the interests of young people.

The SPD wants a new law for children and young people. The law should strengthen children's rights. Children should get protection and support. They should also be able to take part. The well-being of the child should come first.

The SPD wants to secure local child and youth work with a state program so that it survives even when municipal budgets are tight. Youth welfare offices are to get enough staff, and social work in daycare centers and schools is to grow.

The SPD wants to give more money for youth work. Towns and villages should be able to keep services for children. Even when they have little money. Youth welfare offices should have enough staff. There should be more social work in daycare centers and schools.

The SPD wants to fund a statewide network of youth centers and leisure facilities. The Jugendpauschale (the state's per-capita youth work grant) is to be secured regardless of population trends, and funding periods are to be longer.

The SPD wants to fund youth centers all over Saxony. Young people should have places to spend free time together. The money should be safe even if there are fewer young people. Funding should run for longer periods.