وفي إقليم برلين وإقليم شليزفيغ - هولشتاين، تعمل الحكومة الاتحادية على النهوض بهذه المشاريع الريادية على مستوى الأقاليم.
In 2000 roughly 380,000 parents (of whom 98.4 % were women) with employment were in the first year of their child's life in the old child-raising leave, meaning that roughly 95 % of the parents who were entitled availed themselves of this opportunity.