German Government to Subsidize stay-at-home Moms

[urban_stoop]

German women rebel against government plan to pay parents to keep their toddlers at home

BERLIN - A group of women in German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc insisted Friday they would not support a coalition plan to pay parents to care for their toddlers at home, arguing the money could be better spent on expanding child care centers.

Comments

[lilenth]

Didn't you get the memo? Government's increasingly think that "We can want to only offer you X, take it or leave it" is a choice. =\

[youkiddinright]

Government's increasingly think that "We can want to only offer you X, take it or leave it" is a choice.

THIS.

There is nothing wrong with helping stay-at-home moms. But if you leave women who do not make that choice with no option, it's fucking wrong.

[roseofjuly]

Yeah, I don't understand why they can't make this a two-pronged attack?

[caketime]

I'm glad it made the news, to be honest. Stuff like this isn't talked about in Switzerland, for example.

IDEK why they think this is a good idea...

[klunker]

To be fair, it's not officially called "Herdprämie". That's something critics came up with afaik. It also got elected as "Unwort des Jahres" (Faux-pas word of the year) a few years ago.

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[urban_stoop]

Sorry! That's an AP Story orginally, but yeah, I got it from MSNBC. Thanks, mero!