[MinorityRepublican]

Angela Merkel has no children

[television is just wrong]

the U.S. is backwards in it's priorities. We should reward families that stay together and raise children in a two parent environment.

Might help conventional marriages work out a little more often. We are all taxed out of our minds to help welfare recipients and the dead wood or our society.

I have friends who are single parents, and can't imagine being in their shoes.

[MHT]

Just like Hitler needed children to fill the ranks of his army, the modern Germans need more children to keep socialism going. Guess without the new ranks of patsies in their pyramid scheme, Germans won't get to retire at 55 and continue to live off the state until death do them part.

[shield]

Ban abortion.....I'm sure germany would have many more kids if many weren't killed before birth....

[Koblenz]

There's some reason why there's no day care centers, and this article doesn't mention it. Instead, it says that the government needs to provide more child care. However, I'm sure if someone wanted to look into it, they'd find that the private sector is not establishing day care centers because there is some sort of onerous regulation. It may be zoning, it may be in what you have to pay day care workers, it may be simple licensing and all the other headaches. But there's some reason.

Here in the United States, there's day care available if you're willing to pay whatever the rate is. We have a one year old son, and we just decided to put him in daycare for 5 hours a week (2.5 hours 2 days a week). My wife stays home, but we just wanted a day care place for our son with minimal time so he would get over his separation anxiety, and it would also give my wife a chance to do things she can't possibly do with the baby in tow (dentist appointment, even getting the oil changed in the car). Sure enough, there was a place in town that was willing to do it by the hour. There are places that wouldn't take him less than full time, but there were several places to choose from, and thus the market worked.

Why isn't the market working in Germany? When the market doesn't work, and you dig deeper, you find that either 1) it really is working, but the prices are higher than most people think would be "fair" and thus they don't buy the services, or 2) there's some sort of government intervention that is preventing the process from working.

[MinorityRepublican]

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