Posted on 03/18/2006 3:13:31 PM PST by NYer
BERLIN, Germany, March 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Germany’s birth rate is now the lowest in Europe. Only 8.5 babies were born in Germany last year for every 1,000 residents.
In 1964, 1.36 million babies were born in Germany. In 2005, half as many children were born, at just 680,000—the birth rate hasn’t been this low since the end of the Second World War, according to the Federal Statistical Office.
The German city of Chemnitz, in former East Germany, has the lowest birth rate in the world, with 6.9 babies born per 1,000 residents.
“The tradition in the 1950s, 60s and even the 80s in Germany was that a mother was only a mother and looked after the children,” Michael Hüther, who heads up Cologne’s economics institute, told the Guardian.
“We are reaching a critical point,” he said to Die Welt newspaper. “The number of births now determines what happens in the next decade-and-a-half to two decades. You can’t revise it afterwards. The availability of human capital will get worse, and act as a brake on growth.”
Efforts to shore up the birth rate have been mainly unsuccessful so far. Germany’s family minister Ursula von der Leyen introduced tax breaks last year to help couples that wanted children. Increased nursery places and a new state-funded welfare scheme requiring men to take two months off work for families to qualify were also introduced, but none of the changes have had a significant impact on the rate of birth.
All of Europe is facing the same plummeting birthrate. According to Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, by 2050 Europe’s population will have fallen by around 1.5%, or 7 million people. The birth rate in Britain is at 12 births per 1,000 residents. In France the number is 12.7, in the Netherlands 11.9, and in Ireland 15.2.
In Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, birth rates are falling as well. Poland’s rate is 9.3, Bulgaria is at 9 and Latvia has one of the lowest rates, at 8.8.
Not to worry, Muslims will have the babies that Germans refuse to have....
F*ck for the future! It's not just recreation anymore.
" ... new state-funded welfare scheme requiring men to take two months off work for families to qualify"...
Maybe this feminist-inspired indignity is part of the reason!
Restore the traditional family and traditional beliefs and families would return to traditional sizes.
Auf Wiedersehen.
What percentage of those children born would you all guess are Turks?
Well, most German men were away from home or dead in 1945. What's wrong with them now? My own FReepless spouse is Deutcher, and he's perfectly capable of reproducing ...
For some reason, this made me think of the wife of Josef Goebbels (I think), who killed herself and six or seven beautiful children in 1945. I guess it's up to Americans to have German children now ... you should see my sisters-in-law and their daughters. Ach, du Leiber!
Amazing. Never in history has a country been invaded and conquered by inviting in outsiders and then suicidally letting them take over the country by sheer numbers.
We ain't that far behind. I'm planning on 3, so I'm doing my part for my country.
Good on ya! Three is the hardest, though ... you should have four!
Got pictures :-)?
Muzzies own europe. Eurabia coming soon.
3? What's that? Aw cm'on tax-chick, tell her about your beautiful family.
Wait till the EU bureaucrats "discover" that all those gay marriages don't help out the birthrate! :>
Seriously, though, if they fly me over to Europe for a few weeks, I'll be happy to knock up some Eurobabes for 'em--no charge! That might be a solution of sorts, if the German men aren't up to the task.
I probably do, at least of the niece who's on the gymnastics team at George Washington U. They met us at the beach last summer. I'll check my album, and tell Anoreth she can use the scanner for her dragon pictures if she does my photos, too :-).
Seriously, they're all tall, blond knockouts. Two sisters-in-law and four nieces, right out of Nazi propaganda literature on the Master Race.
It's time to revive Lebensborn. The most efficient way to produce lots of healthy Aryan children.
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