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| Why Aren't Germans Having Babies? |
| 2005-01-14 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #5 pre-post? nice try - ESL boy |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-01-14 11:56:13 PM |
| #4 If the post-christian European world is about having kids only when you can take care of them, and the pre-post-christian American world is about teenage pregnancies instead, then I think I'll take the European world, thank you very much. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2005-01-14 11:39:29 PM |
| #3 Germans aren't having babies for much the same reason that Germans take off on average three months of every year and fart around in school until they're into their thirties: it's damn hard work to raise a child. Remember, the postmodern postchristian euro-paradise is all about me, not about caring for little whelps who cry and piss and demand to be fed at inconvenient times. |
| Posted by: lex 2005-01-14 11:33:23 PM |
| #2 In all truth, many, even most babies are accidents. But when the state insists on accountability for accidents, people try to avoid them. Germany's nanny attitude of what children *deserve*, and what is *required* of parents, makes children just too damned expensive for most people. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-01-14 11:16:35 PM |
| #1 I enjoy a riddle: Why Aren't Germans Having Babies? Answer: Because most of the German adults are self-absorbed babies. |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-01-14 10:15:48 PM |