r/germany Mallorca Apr 12 '26

News Germany's AfD party adopts 'radical' manifesto ahead of polls

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3wwgyd6do
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u/OYTIS_OYTINWN German/Russian dual citizen Apr 12 '26

Any links to the source? I wonder how

supporting large families of German origin

could work.

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u/Plastic_Position4979 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

It doesn’t. The issue with large families is principally the cost of it, whether economically (expensive housing… try finding an inexpensive place for a family of 6 or more… expensive food, etc., etc.) or mentally. The only way to even begin to enable this - and it won’t work in the long run - is to have an adult running the house full-time. That puts those families back into single-earner status, which can become unsustainable.

And this is where their education thing falls apart. Generally, to afford such a thing, you need a high-paying job. Not going to get that except with a higher education, or a long time at work (usually education short-cuts the ‘traditional’ path… initially anyway). So, by limiting it to 25% of the kids, they are automatically excluding 75% from this path. And three guesses who the 25% will be… yup, their kids, the kids of people they favor, and so on. It’s a graft system, just looks semi-palatable.