GERMANY TREBLES THE NUMBER OF STATE DAYCARES --WHILE REVEALING DISGUST TOWARD MOTHERHOOD AND REARING CHILDREN AT HOME
Trebling
the number of nurseries is supposed
to...reverse
a fertility rate of 1.3 children per woman - one of
the lowest in Europe after Spain (1.3) and Poland
(1.2), who scrape the bottom of the 2005 Eurostat
survey. The French and Irish lead the field with 1.9
and over. 30% of married couples in Germany have no
children...which is the highest percentage in the
world.
So-called
Super-mom, Ursula von der Leyen, Merkel's minister
for family and youth, is a big proponent of the
legislation. Ms von der Leyen is the mother of seven
children--but she apparently has no problem handing
her children over to the government to be raised
while she pursues more important matters like the
passage of nationalized daycare.
When an outgoing conservative minister, Edmund
Stoiber, proposed that families where the mother
stays at home receive economic incentives in the
amount of 150 Euros monthly --Ursula the super-mom
had this to say:
'This
would only exacerbate the vicious circle in which
children are confined to home, deprived of early
training, linguistic improvement, exercise, and
limits on television viewing,' said von der Leyen,
vehemently criticising this suggestion in Die Welt at
the end of July. 'Just so that their parents can add
another 150
