AYOUB Posted January 27, 2006 · Highest number in world choose not to have family · Minister highlights the threat of low birthrate Luke Harding in Berlin Friday January 27, 2006 The Guardian Germany was plunged into an anguished debate yesterday about how to encourage reluctant couples to breed after new figures showed Germany with the world's highest proportion of childless women. Thirty per cent of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics from 2005, with the figure rising among female graduates to 40%. Germany's new family minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said that unless the birth rate picked up the country would have to "turn the light out". http://www.guardian.co.uk . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
