Posted on 08/28/2011 2:37:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A child in a Hamburg residential complex: A new report has found that parents in 7 percent of German households can't afford to finance hobbies for their children.
Despite substantial subsidies aimed at increasing the birthrate, the number of children in Germany continues to shrink. A new report by the federal government has found there are 14 percent fewer children under 18 than in 2000 -- and 15 percent of them, alarmingly, live in poverty.
For Germany, the figures are the warning signs of a demographic time bomb in a fast-graying society. The number of children under the age of 18 in Germany sank to 13.1 million in 2010, down 14 percent from 2000, the German Federal Statistical Office reported Wednesday. The drop came despite considerable efforts by the German government to reverse the declining birthrate through subsidies made directly to parents and for their childcare.
As a percentage of the overall population, Germany has fewer children than any other country in Europe. Only 16.5 percent of the population is younger than 18 years of age. In other European countries, like France, Great Britain and the Netherlands, those figures are over 20 percent. In Turkey, almost one-third of the country's population of more than 72 million people is younger than 18. The countries in Europe with the smallest populations of children are Germany, Bulgaria (16.7 percent) and Italy (16.9 percent).
The study, presented in Berlin and based on data from a 2010 micro-census of Germany, also provides other alarming figures related to childhood poverty .
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
Socialism tends to Socialize the populace into an infantile, animal-like state so see government-subsidize b-day parties isn’t surprising at all.
and then there are scumbags like this low-life who’s hobby is exploiting children. see paul hawes wanted fugitive http://www.paulhaweswanted.com
better an army of pensioners with nothing to lose, than no army at all. Time is running short to save our western culture, it’s riding off into the sunset without even a backwards glance.
Agreed. What I want to know is whether or not Germans themselves see any connection between their entitlements and their static economy (0.1% GDP growth so far in 2011).
Economies are driven by birthrate. Remember the “baby boom”ers that were born from 1946 to 1964? A 2.1 fertility rate means a static economy since that is minimum replacement level for a country.
It seems that as pretty much any country that becomes wealthy and has an increase in the standard of living the children become less of a priority. Entitlements only exacerbate that problem.
The end of socialism is death.
Maybe what they are missing is Hitler. He had all kinds of free camps and hobbies for the little kinder. Free uniforms too!
And games? Sheesh. Who can forget “find the Jew”? While those stupid American kids played “cowboys and indians” with sticks, the little German boys and girls got to play “Panzerfaust the Soviet tanks”!
“If it comes to it, Germany will be going to war with an infantry of pensioners.”
...or Muzzies, and good luck with their loyalty.
What “America Alone” says is that the developed nations are birth- controlling themselves right out of existence. Of course you know who’s reproducing at a high rate to fill in for them in Europe. (Here it’s Hispanics).
That’s Europe and Japan. America is farther behind them.
Leftist humanism, atheism, and Darwinism boil down to nihilism in the end - nothing has any significance whatsoever, including human existance.
“Your life is meaningless, you’re just an evolved piece of pondscum, and your children, if you have any, will be equally meaningless and equally worthless pieces of evolved pond scum. Now why aren’t you having more kids to support the welfare system?”
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