"Krone" commentary
“Herd premium” and child welfare
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen The Blue and Black coalition negotiators are currently debating the issue. In Upper Austria, where these two parties have been in government together for years, it already exists: the - already very modest - compensation for parents, mothers or fathers who do not send their children to kindergarten early but look after them at home. Opponents of this measure call it the "stove premium", a kind of disgraceful wage intended to force women back into the home.
ON THE ONE HAND, it is of course true that women have to accept disadvantages if they do not return to work early after the birth of their child.
ON THE OTHER hand, everyone who has children knows how attached toddlers or babies are to their parents when they are just a few months old. And everyone knows the misery that such small human children experience when they are left by their mother or father in the nursery or kindergarten at the age of a few months or a year. Fears about why their mother or father is away.
It would be humane to take this into account, to have the child's welfare in mind and to give mothers and fathers the choice by providing a small amount of financial support. And to claim that this stems from a "reactionary view of the family" is disgraceful. Only someone who has never seen a one-year-old cry when they leave their mother can say that.
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