DIE WELT published the results from an interesting study that shocked me. This study? “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany”.
Basically...after immigrant families arrived in Germany and got set up....especially with the second and third generation...they have settled back to the German habits of having fewer kids.
Right now...with the current generation...these immigrant families are still slightly ahead on the numbers of kids they produce...but you can already figure that the fourth generation will likely match up with the German numbers.
The study even points out that the immigrant generations still marry up two years younger than Germans and have kids earlier....but the number of kids are decreasing.
So, what does this mean?
There was this German expectation that foreign families were going to help in the German population problem. Naturally, by foreign...a lot of Germans were thinking Italian or Greek or Polish. But right now, even with the Turks...it'd be helpful to boost up the population for the decades to come.
This interesting trend continues on. The cause or trigger to fewer kids? Most everyone is agreed that the cost of living and taxes amount to a standard that folks have adapted to and will not be shifting away from. The amusing part of this story is that Turks have shown themselves to be adapting to the German model.
The grand national problem still exists and frankly...it just forces the political folks back into the corner on the issues of getting folks to have more kids and keep the country populated.
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