Vooruit wants every child to be able to go to the crèche for free for a total of 130 days. There is currently insufficient capacity, but it should be possible in the long term by investing heavily in the sector. If it turns out that not enough parents respond, Vooruit wants children to go to the crèche. What do you think? Is it a good idea to force children to go to childcare? Earlier today, we let our experts speak. Now it’s your turn.
Kate Van den Bos: “Require? Man, do we have something to say ourselves? One duty after another is thrust upon us. There are already places too short. Who’s going to pay that again? Let them first make sure that they get the budget in order. Taking everything from the ‘ordinary’ people and imposing obligations, but they don’t care about their own wages and subsidies.”
Tanya Fox: “Going to kindergarten as a requirement will certainly be enough. Then a language exam at the start of the first year. Then there are equal opportunities. Why make childcare mandatory? The places are already very limited. Leave it to those who really need it.”
Gino Denil: “If children become the property of the government, it is better not to make them anymore. Then the woman who gives birth to them is nothing more than a handmaid of the government. One must not live at the expense or expense of others, but one must have the right to raise one’s own children and to organize one’s own life as one wishes. The tendency of everyone having to go to work and children being forced to go to daycare makes civilians slaves of the government.”
Johan Hanselaer: “Having children is a personal choice. The parents themselves should be responsible for everything that goes along with this, and not the taxpayers. It is necessary to abolish all fiscal gifts and allowances, so that the profiteering can no longer happen at the expense of others.”
Jacqueline Herck: “Mandatory childcare is not going to solve the problem with the shortage of staff, on the contrary. It is not because you are pumping money into childcare that you will actually find staff to fill all those additional places. And then it remains with a storm in a teacup.”
Linde Segaert: “I hope the government starts helping all children who really need it instead of interfering with those children who are well off at home. Most parents are quite capable of raising their children well at home without needing all that interference from the government.”
Camille Lange: “Compulsory childcare is absurd, but compulsory schooling from the age of three would greatly reduce deprivation because everyone in the first year would at least speak the language of education. This would also raise the overall level. Everyone immediately understands what is being said, no time wasted.”
John Buelens: “It’s a shame that politicians are already dictating how parents raise their children these days… Childcare is all well and good, but personally I think that children are better educated by their parents and sometimes perhaps grandparents than they spend all day in a shelter. to drop. This must of course be possible for the family. But if this is possible, an obligation to provide shelter seems a long way off!”
Martin Mertens: “Childcare has been compulsory for years. It’s just being pronounced now. It’s very simple. If you have no money, you have to work and send the child to the shelter. The non-compulsory childcare is only for the rich.”
Peggy Vandekeybus: “Someone who chooses to stay home with the kids has that right. Stop thinking for the people. We have more common sense than an unworldly politician.”
OUR OPINION. “Child benefits! The stopgap for all problems with young people that we cannot solve in any other way” (+)
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