“…Mothers can choose to receive a maternal allowance for up to four years (Hašková, Mudrák, & Saxonberg 2012;Kuchařová et al, 2009;Saxonberg, 2014). In Czech families with young children, the prevailing view is that children need to be provided with adequate home care and that young children suff er if their mother is employed (people with the lowest levels of education are more often in favour of this view) (Duncan et al, 2004;Höhne & Kuchařová, 2016;Kampichler, Dvořáčková, & Jarkovská, 2018;Kuchařová et al, 2006aKuchařová et al, , 2010.…”