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A childcare credit for the main carer was affixed to the amendment of the Czech law on the public pension insurance increasing the paid-out pensions beyond their standard indexation. This „childcare credit“ was introduced into the Czech politics as an application of the „child pension“ (Kinderrente) concept which ought to react to the adverse demographic development mainly in Germany. The paper analyses the published proposals for a pension reform comprising child pensions, in the context of the entire family policy. Abroad the academic proposals to introduce the child pension have not got through. In Czechia, the Christian Democratic party adopted originally the concept created in the financial sector, later the Ministry of Labour and Social Affaires used a simple argument requiring the increase of average female pension to the average male pension by the introduction of the childcare additional benefit; with no profound analysis which ought at least to consider the existing credits for childcare under 4 years of age. The paper highlights the need for a comprehensive concept of the pension reform including the adequate reflection of the family policy in the pension policy at best based on one of the welfare regimes.