Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-03-13-Speech-2-182"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2007-03-13"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Childcare (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"fi"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20070313.20.2-182"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2007-03-13-Speech-2-1832
lpv:speaker	lp:Hannu Takkula2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; INTA (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; CULT (2007-02-01--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Suomen Keskusta (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; ALDE (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I warmly welcome this initiative on families and childcare. Children and young people are the most valuable asset we have for our future. We have to make the sort of decisions that enable them to live a full and secure life, and these decisions need to be made now. I myself have been privileged in that, when my children were small, I was a house husband in Finland for five years. In our society there was the option of staying at home, and that is also true today. I can therefore state looking back that the five years I spent as a house husband looking after two boys were, without doubt, among the best years of my life. It seems to me that when we speak of parenthood today, we still conventionally try and place the burden of responsibility solely on the shoulders of mothers and women. Parenthood means that fathers too have to take full responsibility for their children. We also need to ensure that work and family life can be reconciled so that families can choose which of the parents goes out to work if it is impossible for both to do so. On the other hand, we should develop forms of day care so that children are provided with good, first-rate care if both parents are gainfully employed. Childhood is an important time, as the data from research shows. The first four to five years in a child’s life are reflected in the rest of that child’s life. The decisions made then, the care and love received and the security that a child has felt will be conspicuous throughout a person’s life. I am therefore in favour of these aims to try and promote the status of families and children. I hope that something concrete will come of them and that they will not merely remain aims."@en1

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