page_title: Solveig Horne
section_title: Minister of Children and Equality
hierarchical_section_title: Solveig Horne / Political career / Minister of Children and Equality
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Barne-, likestillings- og inkluderingsminister Solveig Horne (Frp) under paraden Europride 2014 i Oslo.English: Norwegian minister of children, equality and social inclusion Solveig Horne of the Progress Party taking part in the Europride 2014 parade in Oslo.
context_page_description: Solveig Horne is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Children and Equality in the Solberg Cabinet from 2013 to 2018. She has also been an MP for Rogaland since 2005.
  She has been an elected official since 1995, and was elected to the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, from Rogaland in the 2005 election, and has been re-elected for two consecutive terms in 2009 and 2013.
context_section_description: On 16 October 2013, after the defeat of the Red-Green Coalition and establishment of the Conservative-led Solberg's Cabinet, Horne was appointed Minister of Children of Equality, replacing Inga Marte Thorkildsen from the Socialist Left Party. After her appointment, she outlined an agenda focusing on a reduction in the government-set quotas for paternity leave as well as an increase in the so-called "Cash-benefit" (Norwegian: kontantstøtte) in order to allow parents to keep children home instead of kindergarten.
  She also announced a shift away from her predecessors family policy, announcing that she would focus on strengthening and protecting the family, as well as reducing divorce rates. She explained that "protection of the family has previously been a low priority, this is something we will now strengthen". She called for the introduction of the American custom of having a "date night" once a week in order to cultivate the marriage. She stated the importance of finding pockets of time where "parents can be just lovers again".
  Even before her appointment was official, she was accused of having anti-gay views due to a tweet she wrote in 2010. In the tweet, she questioned: "Is it okay that kindergartens read gay fairy-tales for young children?" (Norwegian: Er det helt greit at barnehagene leser homoeventyr for små barn?). The tweet came in response to a news story in which the government had supported the production and distribution of a manual that aimed to "expand the child's sexual identity" and incorporate sexual diversity in the education of two-, three-and four-year-olds.
  She was succeeded by Conservative Linda Cathrine Hofstad Helleland on 17 January 2018 after the Liberal Party joined the Solberg Cabinet.
caption: Horne in Europride 2014
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