Why Anne Spiegel brought her family into play to explain her position as state minister is understandable as part of her apology.

When they took office as Federal Minister for Family Affairs, the Spiegel family was still considered exemplary: the man enables the woman to have a career and takes care of four children.

This is not the pattern for the average family.

Both parents work and the children are accommodated in all-day care.

That's what politics has been wanting for years, especially Spiegel's party, the Greens.

If one parent stays at home, that's a privilege.

Because such families can afford to forego a second salary.

Means of remedy for a minister

But in order to be able to live in the prosperity of a minister, both father and mother usually have to work.

Curiously, in the case of Spiegel, the compatibility of work and family is measured using the traditional family model – and it doesn’t even seem to work there because of Corona and because one partner has health problems.

For a minister, there are plenty of remedies.

In a "normal" family with four children, in which the second salary is lost in such a case, the state of emergency breaks out, especially in Corona times.

Not to mention a four-week vacation in France.

Spiegel's apology and the debate that followed only show how far Green politicians have removed themselves from the everyday material life of many families with their political and moral standards.