Posted on 03/19/2006 9:44:02 PM PST by Murtyo
Political leaders in Germany have vowed to push through new policies to encourage Germans to have more children after alarming new data showed the country is at the bottom of the world's birth rate rankings.
Figures issued by the Federal Statistics Office on Friday estimated that the number of children born in Germany in 2005 reflected the lowest birth rates per woman in the European Union and the lowest total since the office began measuring births in 1946.
A separate demographic study published last week by the Berlin Institute for Population and Development put Germany last in the global rankings of births per citizen and predicted the trend would accelerate in coming decades.
It could already be too late.
Nothing to worry about, just keep importing muslims to take the jobs that Germans don't want to do.
Dear Germany
I will commute, my equipment is attached, functional and was specifically engineered for the task.
TT
It appears that Germany needs a greater germanation rate. Hey... I'm available!
If I am not mistaken they had one in the past too even awarded the most productive with medals. Maybe they can dust that one off.
I heard that German television broadcasts graphic porn. Maybe German men expend all their ammo on the practice range.
From what I understand German marriage and paternity laws are a real socialist mess. Suspect that might have something to do with it.
My German-born cousins moved OUT of Germany and emigrated to the USA .... to stay, once and for all. I think they wised up about the rampant (and growing) socialism policies in their country. They want to try to KEEP what they earn (although that's getting harder and harder to do in this country).
Problems go much deeper than that.
Their is a culture now that promotes that having children in Germany is "uncool".
The easy going welfare and college system has germans in their 20's just collecting benefits from the state and going to school part time. Many don't even graduate from college until later 20's/ early 30's. And then the women don't want to be burdened with having children when they are just getting their careers started. German corporate culture looks down on women with kids giving them the "you won't be as reliable" as a un-married woman with no kids.
Germany is extremely poor with day-care facilities. And normal school hours have many kids getting out of school as early as 1 or 2 in the afternoon so mothers or fathers are under pressure to take time off from work to go pick up the kids and again, the corporate culture in Germany gives people flack for that.
And other big one is that the tax rates on workers in Germany is soo damn high, many simply don't want to settle down, have kids, and enter the workforce since so much of their pay goes to fund the bloated pension & welfare system. Germany is already neck deep in its baby boomer problems and its getting worse.
It drives many young germans to leave germany.
Germany has a strong green party movement. I think the greens advocate for fewer human beings.
Apparently you also lived in Germany once.
Which part?
Lived in a town called Erding right outside Munich for half a year on business in 2001. I'm 1/4 german from my mothers side and her father came from that region. I dreamt of seeing that area so it was a dream come true.
But from the friends I made and got to know and heard what they had to say, and what I saw going on around me, I could see a lot of problems I discuss going on. It really made me sad, because so much about Germany, I really loved.
Its a truely beautiful place. But economically and society wise, they have some very serious issues on the horizon.
My thoughts precisely.
I lived there from June 2001 to June 2005, US military assignment.
You did a great job explaining why Germany's future is very cloudy.
Germany ping.
Sounds like liberalism/socialism run amok.
Yep. It's economic, cultural, societal, and religious. Really the whole of a society adds up to reveal the end product.
I lived in Germany briefly in the summer of 1972, and I remember it as a hardworking, industrious country where the citizens showed a lot of goodwill toward Americans.
I was there for 6 months back in 2002 myself. I'd agree that a lot of what you mentioned seemed evident over there still.
first step... shave those legs & pits!
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