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Green Party Platform:
Child Care

Childbearing, parenting and homemaking are essential to a healthy society and deserve to be respected and supported.

These essential social functions are not valued in our present economic measuring systems (the Gross Domestic Product, for example). As a result, these vital domestic responsibilities are devalued in our market-based society.

The Green Party recognizes child care responsibilities:

• Give women the right to a year's parental leave from work with a guaranteed right to return.

• Provide on-site child care in work places above a certain size.

• Make job sharing options available to give people the choice of part-time work.

• Give people financial incentives to save money for children.