How To Live In Denmark » Podcasts

Denmark is a pretty good place to raise children. Working hours are shorter, and it’s perfectly OK to leave work at 3 or 4 o’clock to pick up your kids.  There’s a good system for early childhood health. A nurse visits to your home when your child is a baby, and then there are regular checkups with doctor. If your child has the sniffles, you can take off work and stay home with her – the first two days are paid.  And, of course, there’s the day care system.  It’s not free, but it’s reasonably priced, and it’s nice to be able to drop off your kid in a safe place with trained people while you go to work.   In some countries, there’s a lot of controversy about whether very young children should be in day care or at home with their parents.  Not in Denmark.  97% of kids go to day care, even the children of the Royal Family.  Even the future king, currently known as the eight-year-old Prince Christian, went to day care.  Everyone goes to day care partly because the Danish tax structure means both parents have t