We all know just how tough it is working nine to five and then have to go home to look after a house full of kids.
But apart from the sheer exhaustion, families have less time to be together, with many kids being cared for in crèche Monday to Friday.
However, Germany’s Family Minister, Manuela Schwesig, wants to make the working week shorter for parents with kids under the age of eight, proposing a subsidy of €300 a month for two years to make up the shortfall.
Explaining how it would cost the taxpayer less than €1bn a year, she said it would allow both parents to share the childcare as well as continue with their career.
“The clear majority of young parents want to share childcare, house work and careers fifty-fifty,” she said to Bild newspaper.
“I want to make young parents an offer that enables them both to commit themselves with the same intensity to childcare care and to their careers.”
Currently, Germany has some of the shortest working hours, according to the Telegraph, but longer days have started to creep in with many people working beyond assigned hours.
