Questions concerning attitudes towards family policy were included in the regular wave of the Our Society Panel survey conducted at the turn of March and April. As part of this block of questions, respondents assessed how the current government is addressing the social situation of families with children. They also expressed agreement or disagreement with selected measures related to family policy and chose, from a list of proposed measures, those that they believed should be the government’s highest priority.
Half of respondents (50%) stated that the government takes adequate care of the social situation of families with children. By contrast, two fifths of respondents (38%) stated that the government’s care is insufficient. This view was more often held by respondents aged 30–54 (50%), voters of the Pirates together with the Green Party in the 2025 Chamber of Deputies election (50%).
The highest level of support among the selected measures was recorded for support for flexible working hours or part-time work for parents with young children, with which 93% of respondents agreed.
The second most frequently supported measure was paternity leave, with which 88% of respondents agreed.
Nearly four fifths of respondents (78%) agreed with the measure: “If a parent fails to pay child support, the state will pay it on their behalf and then recover the amount from the non-paying parent.”
The measure for which disagreement outweighed agreement concerned the introduction of free school lunches for all children. Half of respondents (50%) disagreed with this measure, while 46% expressed agreement.
The measure with the highest share of undecided responses (26%) concerned the joint taxation of spouses.
Due to a change in CVVM’s research methodology, the results of this survey are not directly comparable with the results of previous surveys conducted up to 2024. More information on the new methodology can be found in this press release.
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