When I was at home with my children, I did not reflect on what advantages we had as Swedes. Now I have been well aware of it for many years. My wife and I were able to stay home during our children's first year plus 5 weeks of vacation during the summer. When they were just over a year old, they started at the "preschool". Our children were born in 1979 and 1982. However, these benefits have not fallen from the sky or just arisen by themselves. Our unions and left parties have pushed the issues. Often under opposition from bourgeois parties. Particularly hard at the beginning of these reforms. Political propaganda of me? Sure but also facts, can be checked.
I was a singel parent since my son's birth 1990 and I was ever so thankful that I could stay at home for a year and a half before going back to work. And thankfully had 5-7 week of vacation. It's been tough all those years but doable. I can't imagine how stressful it could have been otherwise.
Hello and regards for UK! what a great informative video - thank you :D . I am considering moving back to Europe - Sweden most likely. I am a single mother (polish ) and have 6 years old daughter ( english - polish citizneship ). Since it is difficult to find informations here on YT, I was wondering if you kindly be able to point me to the content for single parents wanting to relocate to Sweden, please? Or maybe you have one, or would like to record it for us? Much appriciate your help and time - thank you, Dominika
When I was (far) younger, I enjoyed my work so much that I left 10+ days of holiday each year, which got accumulated. Then eventually my manager wanted to have a serious chat with me, and it turned out to be about my accumulated leave. I was pretty much forced to stay away from work for almost 3 months. I had my company car and I spent most of that time just driving and travelling around all of Sweden (including a 10-day trek in the mountains in Lapland), which enabled me to see most of the country and really appreciate it.
In Sweden, according to the School Law, all children have the right to preschool from the age of 1, ie the day they turn 1 year old. Not before that. You don't pay for nappies every where. It's up to the municipality (kommunen) or the private school to decide whether the nappies is for free. They often are. The year that a child turns six, he or she begins in "förskoleklass", in primary school. When the school day is finished most of the children stays in school in Fritids (Fritidshem). There they can stay until their parents picks them up after finished work. Fritids is even cheaper than the preschool fee. I am a preschool teacher by the way ;) About vacation, I had 25 days and when I turned 40 I got 6 more days, 31 days. And then I turned 50 and got one more day so now I have 32 days of vacation every year. That is very common here in Sweden. If you are a government employee you have even more days. After turning 40 you get 35 days every year. A Swede have the right to have 4 consecutive weeks vacation between June-August. According to the Holidays law (act?)
yes. if u just count up the weekdays i often take 5 weeks (25 workdays) vacation during the summer and save another week for christmas - where there are several bank holidays anyway. im 43 years old, and work as a chef at a council day care centre. A bit of a shame here is that if a "bank holiday" (röd dag) happens to land on a weekend, you dont get that extra day off if you only work monday to friday
If a country has content, healthy, well educated citizens they will work and pay taxes. And taking care of families is a very clear investment for the future for the country as a whole. And I think a lot of us who grew up in Sweden takes that for granted and find other countrys who doesn't do this really really strange! ;)
Agreed, other countries struggle to keep up with Sweden in regards to benefits. But your first point is very important, Sweden needs to ensure that it polices its borders to avoid the "well educated and working" population being polluted with arrivals whom do not want to work, pay tax nor be educated.
with the long summer break that school kids have in sweden , 10 weeks - its really important for parents of young children to be able to take days of work aswell. Ofc, not all co-parents has the ability to take vacations back to back or at the same time - so there is often the additional choice of after school programs (fritids) for the children during the summer. All of these rights could change in the future thou, why i think its so important to vote
Yes exactly, it's a worry that with a rapidly increasing population, Swedens capacity to accommodate so many benefits amongst people whom don't wish to work will be a challenge. Thanks for the comment!
I like you. You should have more subscribers 😊 I can't wait to start using all these things (except VAB 😅), my baby is just 6 months old so I'm familiar with the benefits but haven't used them so far (except barnbidrag).
There has actually been a court case about the nappies in the förskola/kindergarten, and Kammarrätten (Court of Appeal?) made a verdict saying that no parent should have to pay any additional costs to have their kids in kindergarten, for nappies for instance. The Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen (Supreme Administatiove Court?) agreed. But some of the municipalities and regions still don´t want to take that cost, even if they legally have too. For instance, in Stockholm, Karlstad, Gullspång, Lidköping, Salem, Karlsborg, Nacka, Huddinge, Grums, Boden, Härnösand, Norrtälje, Lindesberg, Norrköping, Lidingö, Nynäshamn, Falköping and Nykvarn the municipalities supply the nappies without any additional cost for the parents, but some other municipalities still don´t.
My husband has also become Swedish, he wanted to remove his British and we realised it cost so much more, more then become a Swedish citizens. The Brexit vote wasn't fair, England decided over Scotland and Northern Ireland, they wanted to stay.
Totally agree Hanna and I suspect that the nation's of the UK will gain their independence in the coming years and the EU will welcome them back with open arms!
@@BeingSwenglish Scotland let 16 year old vote because it was about their future. It also pisses me off when Scotland voted to stay in UK it was due to the promised of being EU and then England turns around and brake that promise too.
I didn't know that daycare in Sweden is now called preschool. Since 98 apparently :) When I grew up I believe I had 1 year of preschool before starting first grade.
Really sad about the Brexit! Wish it could be turned back. But then that's how it's it. Have no children but I'm absolutely willing to pay my taxes to provide the system for everything your video's about. In a society we have to think about the whole thing and not being selfish to get individual benefits. This is all about building a sustainable society. If people feel good it benefits al of us and the whole community. Lovely video btw, nice to see you walking around with all the greenery around you :)
Everyone is leaving out that we also expects everyone to start work a couple of minutes and get much done during the work day.. It's benefits based on responsibility and without it the system brakes down and that isn't far off so enjoy !
Great video!! Couldn’t agree more!! We are so extremely privileged here!! What pains me is that Sweden has become more closed to immigration these past years. It no longer matters if someone with a different nationality falls in love with someone with Swedish citizenship and has a child together in order to stay here. It’s getting very difficult and splitting families apart. We are great in so many ways but one thing I really feel ashamed about is just how much support these anti-immigration trends are getting. Great video once again. 👍
I agree, its a shame we are starting to become more closed off. I'm glad I have parents that has told me how important immigration has been for our country, the fact is Sweden couldn't be the country it is today if not for immigration.
I have never taken 5 weeks off in a one go, 4 weeks have been the maximum. I like to go skiing, so my 5th week ws usually sometime in Feb-March. It is true that you might get 6 weeks of vacation IF you agree to not get paid for overtime. I don't like that concept: If I work extra hours I want to get paid for it and if I don't then I should not get paid either! Off topic: Where was that coastline at the end? Living in Scania myself, I feel that I should have recognized it.
There is a reason why the UK is considered the worst place to bring kids up in, in the western world. I live in the south of England and have done various jobs driving around my home town and other areas. What I have observed is the UK is not a clean country and people in general here don't care about one another or their environment. Most people seem stressed out, over worked and unhappy. Teenagers spend their time sitting in what few parks we have smoking cannabis. In most UK cities knife crime is riffe and teenagers stab eachother to death. London has the highest number of acid attacks in the world. All the jobs I have done have paid the bare minimum despite the cost of living being so high, so can't afford to do things. I have always said I will never want to bring kids up in the UK for all the reasons I have just said and conseqquently I have took upon myself to make sure I never accidently father a child by being sterilised. The UK is so over crowded and people are living on top of one another so animosity is riffe. The UK is just a horrible place. I would love to leave the UK because it is finished. I know colleagues who are paying a fortune for rent, child care etc and having to work 80 plus hours a week and still have nothing to show for it. They are sadly not seeing their kids grow up because they are always at work. The quality of life and standard of living in the UK for the average person is generally quite poor. Many places in the UK are no go areas.
Great video about benefits in sweden. But why all those benefits for parents? Its becuse we need to preserv our workforce.. both parents supose to work (and paying taxes) and get a career, gender equality is altso importante. (you know femals vote to) Now a question, they say that Sweden and other Nordic countries have the higest femal participation in the workforce? Then one need to provide service for parents. Soo to the bad thing in Sweden.. you have to work and pay taxes, to get those benefits!
Absolutely agree Stig, Sweden is great at making benefits and opportunities available to all! However, it's still quote shocking that the highest paid individuals in most communes are men, not women, despite this!
Is there a disconnect with regards to safety in Sweden? If we are discussing how great it is for kids and parents. Shouldn’t that include safety? That’s my primary concern if I am going to relocate. I see news about shootings, hand grenades, gangs, segregated neighborhoods with growing criminal elements, I’m sure you get my point. Is the solution to pay more for a Swedish neighborhood/school and bury your head in the sand? Excuse my frank comment but my daughters safety is my primary concern.
I know this an old comment but it was never answered so I'll swoop in. There's a lot of right wing propaganda on these issues (especially the grenades). Maybe don't move to places around Stockholm like rinkeby just like how I won't be moving to London to raise kids because of the gangs there. Shootings are gang related (and the gang problems come from poverty and segregation so its an important topic politically) and aren't happening constantly or everywhere, plenty of safe places in Sweden. You're daughter is safe unless you chose to move her into a ghetto with high crime rate as is the case in virtually every country on earth.
Sorry for the late reply, but Sweden is no less safe than any other European countries. If you live in a ghetto, then you'll find yourself amongst dangerous neighbourhoods and people, that applies regardless of which country you live in.
I can not recomend this! Whe hade to escape in middle of night, now living in Poland. Why? The state can kidnapp your children. One reason was that i waited in car when picking up daughter from kindergarten
This is absolute nonsense. The state remove children from incapable, incompetent parents, those that do not deserve to be mother or father to a child, because they abuse or mistreat them. Please don't spread this vile nonsense
@@BeingSwenglish you have noo idea what you talk about. To kindergarten there can come a controller from the state, and what they remarks on is that they want them to do more -orosanmälan. What does that tell you?
@@cieslaolsztyn8266 nonsense, absolute nonsense. Provide your evidence...because there is only one case which these idiotic conspiracy theorists quote, and when you actually review the court paperwork, you can see that the girl was abused by the parents.
@@BeingSwenglish its not hapen to you i can se .but soo many other parents. Look Uppdrag granskning "skakvåldet" Norway also not good country for famelies. Same problem in Ireland... Holland..Germany
PS. lies, Sweden is the worst place & Norway too, to live with your kids in it,, the law allowing any one in the social service to take your kids to another family, just because He/She belive the kid is not okay.. can you imagen this PS. search about the case & you will know the truth.
Philip, based on that comment it's quite clear that you're not only stupid and illiterate, but as Henrik highlighted, you're also a troll. Have a lovely weekend.
Another "right-wing ghost" who sees the United States as a role model! Most of them lack empathy for others. The most important thing for them is also to talk badly about Sweden in all contexts!
@@BeingSwenglish u are the troll thinking money comes from goverment no its the taxpayers money that goverment steal and giives to other ppl thats how it works but its fun to see u defend urself not knowing facts
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When I was at home with my children, I did not reflect on what advantages we had as Swedes. Now I have been well aware of it for many years. My wife and I were able to stay home during our children's first year plus 5 weeks of vacation during the summer. When they were just over a year old, they started at the "preschool". Our children were born in 1979 and 1982.
However, these benefits have not fallen from the sky or just arisen by themselves. Our unions and left parties have pushed the issues. Often under opposition from bourgeois parties. Particularly hard at the beginning of these reforms.
Political propaganda of me? Sure but also facts, can be checked.
I was a singel parent since my son's birth 1990 and I was ever so thankful that I could stay at home for a year and a half before going back to work. And thankfully had 5-7 week of vacation. It's been tough all those years but doable. I can't imagine how stressful it could have been otherwise.
Hello and regards for UK! what a great informative video - thank you :D . I am considering moving back to Europe - Sweden most likely. I am a single mother (polish ) and have 6 years old daughter ( english - polish citizneship ). Since it is difficult to find informations here on YT, I was wondering if you kindly be able to point me to the content for single parents wanting to relocate to Sweden, please? Or maybe you have one, or would like to record it for us? Much appriciate your help and time - thank you, Dominika
Great video, you’ve once again reminded me what a wonderful country we live in. Thanks for spreading the word and keep up the good work. 👍
Tack Jonas, my pleasure!
Parents are really lucky in Sweden. Another great video!
When I was (far) younger, I enjoyed my work so much that I left 10+ days of holiday each year, which got accumulated. Then eventually my manager wanted to have a serious chat with me, and it turned out to be about my accumulated leave. I was pretty much forced to stay away from work for almost 3 months. I had my company car and I spent most of that time just driving and travelling around all of Sweden (including a 10-day trek in the mountains in Lapland), which enabled me to see most of the country and really appreciate it.
3 months, wow! Glad that it worked out well in the end! Thanks for the comment!
In Sweden, according to the School Law, all children have the right to preschool from the age of 1, ie the day they turn 1 year old. Not before that. You don't pay for nappies every where. It's up to the municipality (kommunen) or the private school to decide whether the nappies is for free. They often are. The year that a child turns six, he or she begins in "förskoleklass", in primary school. When the school day is finished most of the children stays in school in Fritids (Fritidshem). There they can stay until their parents picks them up after finished work. Fritids is even cheaper than the preschool fee. I am a preschool teacher by the way ;) About vacation, I had 25 days and when I turned 40 I got 6 more days, 31 days. And then I turned 50 and got one more day so now I have 32 days of vacation every year. That is very common here in Sweden. If you are a government employee you have even more days. After turning 40 you get 35 days every year. A Swede have the right to have 4 consecutive weeks vacation between June-August. According to the Holidays law (act?)
yes. if u just count up the weekdays i often take 5 weeks (25 workdays) vacation during the summer and save another week for christmas - where there are several bank holidays anyway. im 43 years old, and work as a chef at a council day care centre. A bit of a shame here is that if a "bank holiday" (röd dag) happens to land on a weekend, you dont get that extra day off if you only work monday to friday
If a country has content, healthy, well educated citizens they will work and pay taxes. And taking care of families is a very clear investment for the future for the country as a whole. And I think a lot of us who grew up in Sweden takes that for granted and find other countrys who doesn't do this really really strange! ;)
Agreed, other countries struggle to keep up with Sweden in regards to benefits. But your first point is very important, Sweden needs to ensure that it polices its borders to avoid the "well educated and working" population being polluted with arrivals whom do not want to work, pay tax nor be educated.
Apparently brilliant video sir!! Thank you
Very nice video, informative content! Way to go, Sweden!
I’d love to move to Sweden next year. Thank you for this.
Love your vids!
I feel so spoiled. But lucky being living here.
Thank you for making me feel more grateful. 💯🇸🇪🇬🇧
Tack Michael, a great country isn't it!
@@BeingSwenglish
It's like a good relationship. You need to maintain it and take good care if and not take anything for granted.
with the long summer break that school kids have in sweden , 10 weeks - its really important for parents of young children to be able to take days of work aswell. Ofc, not all co-parents has the ability to take vacations back to back or at the same time - so there is often the additional choice of after school programs (fritids) for the children during the summer. All of these rights could change in the future thou, why i think its so important to vote
Yes exactly, it's a worry that with a rapidly increasing population, Swedens capacity to accommodate so many benefits amongst people whom don't wish to work will be a challenge. Thanks for the comment!
I like you. You should have more subscribers 😊 I can't wait to start using all these things (except VAB 😅), my baby is just 6 months old so I'm familiar with the benefits but haven't used them so far (except barnbidrag).
Tack kompis!! Appreciate the comment
There has actually been a court case about the nappies in the förskola/kindergarten, and Kammarrätten (Court of Appeal?) made a verdict saying that no parent should have to pay any additional costs to have their kids in kindergarten, for nappies for instance. The Högsta förvaltningsdomstolen (Supreme Administatiove Court?) agreed. But some of the municipalities and regions still don´t want to take that cost, even if they legally have too.
For instance, in Stockholm, Karlstad, Gullspång, Lidköping, Salem, Karlsborg, Nacka, Huddinge, Grums, Boden, Härnösand, Norrtälje, Lindesberg, Norrköping, Lidingö, Nynäshamn, Falköping and Nykvarn the municipalities supply the nappies without any additional cost for the parents, but some other municipalities still don´t.
My husband has also become Swedish, he wanted to remove his British and we realised it cost so much more, more then become a Swedish citizens. The Brexit vote wasn't fair, England decided over Scotland and Northern Ireland, they wanted to stay.
Totally agree Hanna and I suspect that the nation's of the UK will gain their independence in the coming years and the EU will welcome them back with open arms!
@@BeingSwenglish Scotland let 16 year old vote because it was about their future. It also pisses me off when Scotland voted to stay in UK it was due to the promised of being EU and then England turns around and brake that promise too.
One more point, if one person stays home with the kids it will have a huge impact on the future pension.
I didn't know that daycare in Sweden is now called preschool. Since 98 apparently :) When I grew up I believe I had 1 year of preschool before starting first grade.
Really sad about the Brexit! Wish it could be turned back. But then that's how it's it. Have no children but I'm absolutely willing to pay my taxes to provide the system for everything your video's about. In a society we have to think about the whole thing and not being selfish to get individual benefits. This is all about building a sustainable society. If people feel good it benefits al of us and the whole community. Lovely video btw, nice to see you walking around with all the greenery around you :)
Tack Bengt, that's genuibely a lovely comment and you're the kind of taxpayer that this country needs! Ha en fint vecka!
Everyone is leaving out that we also expects everyone to start work a couple of minutes and get much done during the work day.. It's benefits based on responsibility and without it the system brakes down and that isn't far off so enjoy !
I live in sweden
Great!
Great video!! Couldn’t agree more!! We are so extremely privileged here!! What pains me is that Sweden has become more closed to immigration these past years. It no longer matters if someone with a different nationality falls in love with someone with Swedish citizenship and has a child together in order to stay here. It’s getting very difficult and splitting families apart. We are great in so many ways but one thing I really feel ashamed about is just how much support these anti-immigration trends are getting. Great video once again. 👍
I agree, its a shame we are starting to become more closed off. I'm glad I have parents that has told me how important immigration has been for our country, the fact is Sweden couldn't be the country it is today if not for immigration.
I have never taken 5 weeks off in a one go, 4 weeks have been the maximum. I like to go skiing, so my 5th week ws usually sometime in Feb-March.
It is true that you might get 6 weeks of vacation IF you agree to not get paid for overtime. I don't like that concept: If I work extra hours I want to get paid for it and if I don't then I should not get paid either!
Off topic: Where was that coastline at the end? Living in Scania myself, I feel that I should have recognized it.
Did you actually skip over parental leave?
There is a reason why the UK is considered the worst place to bring kids up in, in the western world. I live in the south of England and have done various jobs driving around my home town and other areas. What I have observed is the UK is not a clean country and people in general here don't care about one another or their environment. Most people seem stressed out, over worked and unhappy. Teenagers spend their time sitting in what few parks we have smoking cannabis. In most UK cities knife crime is riffe and teenagers stab eachother to death. London has the highest number of acid attacks in the world. All the jobs I have done have paid the bare minimum despite the cost of living being so high, so can't afford to do things. I have always said I will never want to bring kids up in the UK for all the reasons I have just said and conseqquently I have took upon myself to make sure I never accidently father a child by being sterilised. The UK is so over crowded and people are living on top of one another so animosity is riffe. The UK is just a horrible place.
I would love to leave the UK because it is finished. I know colleagues who are paying a fortune for rent, child care etc and having to work 80 plus hours a week and still have nothing to show for it. They are sadly not seeing their kids grow up because they are always at work. The quality of life and standard of living in the UK for the average person is generally quite poor. Many places in the UK are no go areas.
Great video about benefits in sweden.
But why all those benefits for parents?
Its becuse we need to preserv our workforce.. both parents supose to work (and paying taxes) and get a career, gender equality is altso importante. (you know femals vote to)
Now a question, they say that Sweden and other Nordic countries have the higest femal participation in the workforce?
Then one need to provide service for parents.
Soo to the bad thing in Sweden.. you have to work and pay taxes, to get those benefits!
Absolutely agree Stig, Sweden is great at making benefits and opportunities available to all! However, it's still quote shocking that the highest paid individuals in most communes are men, not women, despite this!
Is there a disconnect with regards to safety in Sweden? If we are discussing how great it is for kids and parents. Shouldn’t that include safety? That’s my primary concern if I am going to relocate. I see news about shootings, hand grenades, gangs, segregated neighborhoods with growing criminal elements, I’m sure you get my point. Is the solution to pay more for a Swedish neighborhood/school and bury your head in the sand? Excuse my frank comment but my daughters safety is my primary concern.
I know this an old comment but it was never answered so I'll swoop in. There's a lot of right wing propaganda on these issues (especially the grenades). Maybe don't move to places around Stockholm like rinkeby just like how I won't be moving to London to raise kids because of the gangs there. Shootings are gang related (and the gang problems come from poverty and segregation so its an important topic politically) and aren't happening constantly or everywhere, plenty of safe places in Sweden. You're daughter is safe unless you chose to move her into a ghetto with high crime rate as is the case in virtually every country on earth.
Sorry for the late reply, but Sweden is no less safe than any other European countries. If you live in a ghetto, then you'll find yourself amongst dangerous neighbourhoods and people, that applies regardless of which country you live in.
Imagine this being a thing in an English-speaking country, would that be COC? Care of children?
I can not recomend this! Whe hade to escape in middle of night, now living in Poland. Why? The state can kidnapp your children. One reason was that i waited in car when picking up daughter from kindergarten
This is absolute nonsense. The state remove children from incapable, incompetent parents, those that do not deserve to be mother or father to a child, because they abuse or mistreat them. Please don't spread this vile nonsense
@@BeingSwenglish you have noo idea what you talk about. To kindergarten there can come a controller from the state, and what they remarks on is that they want them to do more -orosanmälan. What does that tell you?
@@cieslaolsztyn8266 nonsense, absolute nonsense. Provide your evidence...because there is only one case which these idiotic conspiracy theorists quote, and when you actually review the court paperwork, you can see that the girl was abused by the parents.
@@BeingSwenglish its not hapen to you i can se .but soo many other parents. Look Uppdrag granskning "skakvåldet" Norway also not good country for famelies. Same problem in Ireland... Holland..Germany
@@cieslaolsztyn8266 prove it, evidence it, otherwise you're talking conspiracy nonsense.
PS. lies, Sweden is the worst place & Norway too, to live with your kids in it,, the law allowing any one in the social service to take your kids to another family, just because He/She belive the kid is not okay.. can you imagen this PS. search about the case & you will know the truth.
ur a lier its not paid by the goverment its payed by the tax payer
Well, you are a troll.
Philip, based on that comment it's quite clear that you're not only stupid and illiterate, but as Henrik highlighted, you're also a troll. Have a lovely weekend.
Another "right-wing ghost" who sees the United States as a role model! Most of them lack empathy for others. The most important thing for them is also to talk badly about Sweden in all contexts!
@@BeingSwenglish u are the troll thinking money comes from goverment no its the taxpayers money that goverment steal and giives to other ppl thats how it works but its fun to see u defend urself not knowing facts