Family Report 2024: No concept for solving births and demography disaster
Family Report 2024: No concept for solving births and demography disaster
The Federal Ministry of Family, Women and Youth published the “Family Report 2024” on the international day of the family. The deputy federal spokeswoman for the alternative for Germany, Mariana Harder-Kühnel, expresses her criticism in relation to the report. According to Harder-Kühnel, the family report 2024 is mainly a collection of data and diagrams, which, however, does not contain any concrete future family policy perspectives for Germany. In particular, it criticizes the lack of explanations on the long-term demography disaster and lack of concepts to solve the resulting shortage of skilled workers in Germany.Harder-Kühnel emphasizes that a sustainable family policy should aim to increase the domestic birth rate and to ensure controlled population development. It suggests that the Federal Ministry of Family Affairs should focus on the discrepancy between the intended and the number of children and mothers actually desired in Germany. If this discrepancy could be solved, the birth rate in Germany would be significantly above the level to preserve the population stock and thus largely solve the long -term shortage of skilled workers through the local population.
The AfD sees the fight against demographic disaster in Germany as a key question and a fundamental task of the federal government to preserve the German population as well as the economic, social and pension system.
For an effective family policy, parents should have a real freedom of choice between their own and foreign childcare, and the state should enable parents to re -enter their professional life after the break in parenting without significant career losses.
It remains to be seen whether Harder-Kühnel's criticism will have an impact on the family report 2024 in Germany.
In the following you will find a table with some relevant data on German population development:
| Year | Population |
| —— | ————- |
| 1950 | 69.3 million |
| 1970 | 78.1 million |
| 1990 | 79.8 million |
| 2010 | 81.7 million |
| 2020 | 83.2 million |
Source: Statistical Federal Office
The table shows that the population of Germany has only grown moderately in recent decades. It could be argued that the low birth rate is a significant factor for this slow growth. A targeted family -political strategy to increase the birth rate could therefore have an impact on the future German population development.
Kommentare (0)