" ... 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.
Amen! As Santayana reminds us ... "Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it". Each time feminism has reeled her ugly head, society has collapsed. The US is next.
Lower birth rate for Germans.
My neighbor is from Germany and he travels to Germany one or two times a yr. He informs me the tax rate for woking people is out of control. His niece and husband both work to jobs for
support. I said to him, maybe they should lower their life style, his reply, they do not live an expensive life style.
They have a small house and one car, it's the taxation.
If two working people scarcely get by why would they try to have children?