When famili have a second child, one of the parents, usually the mother, makes use of the paid parental leave insurance to stay home and take care of the infant during the first year. In most municipalities, children in public child care automatically lose their place when a parent takes parental leave. Some of these parents (44 percent) would prefer a situation where the older child was allowed to say in the pre-school or family day care home also during this parental leave period. Friends and play-mates might be few and far-between in the neighbourhood during the daytime.