Czech Parenting Policy

The Czech government is primarily interested in giving the families true and genuine freedom to decide on the form of reconciling their family, personal and professional lives, but not only in relation to the support of employment. The Czech Republic perceives the home parental care for small children as a full-value and socially relevant alternative to gainful activity, while fully respecting different preferences and strategies of the parents in taking care of their children. In order to implement the principle of freedom to choose the duration and scope of care for the child itself, the governments considers it essential to create suitable conditions also for those parents, who decide to care for their children largely themselves, without making use of the child care services. 

The Czech Republic supports such parents, in particular, by a sufficiently long period of maternity and parental leave. In addition, it provides financial support throughout the parental care for a child during the maternity and parental leave in order to compensate as much as possible the loss of wage and the lost opportunities, by granting tax allowances for the working parent, supporting family services focused on prevention of social exclusion of parents caring for children under maternity or parental leave (such as mother and family centres) and supporting projects to enhance parental competence through appropriately targeted subsidized facilities.

Content above from https://www.mpsv.cz/files/clanky/6600/information_family_policy.pdf