Birgit
Bessin
Family
Care Funding
AfD
Kompakt, August 27, 2019
[Birgit Bessin is an Alternative für
Deutschland member of the Brandenburg state legislature and an AfD assistant state
party chairman. The current German family minister Franziska Giffey is a member
of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Elections for the Brandenburg state
legislature will be held September 1.]
The
nearer the end of the election campaign, the more a deep blue mixes into the
rhetorical proposals of the reds. Already in January of this year, the AfD
delegation in a motion (Drucksache 6/10434) in the Brandenburg state
legislature demanded the introduction of family care funding [Pflegefamiliengeldes] – this motion was
defeated with the votes of Giffey’s SPD.
There
is without a doubt a present necessity for family care funding. The number of
those needing care in Brandenburg due to the population evolution in the past
decades has in fact increased explosively and will in the coming years and
decades increase still further. The need cannot be met by trained care givers alone.
We therefore must value the work of caring family members and also be concerned
so that this activity be socially recognized exactly like employment. Instead of
just making one in a series of announcements, the SPD could long ago have
addressed this question – they however do not do it.
[Translated
by Todd Martin]
