German women - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 30 May 2013 04:18:24 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg German women - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Cardinal: German women should stay home and have children https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/05/31/cardinal-german-women-should-stay-home-and-have-children/ Thu, 30 May 2013 19:01:32 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=44971 German women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world" to increase the birth rate, according to Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne. He said immigration is not the answer to the demographic crisis in Germany, which has the lowest birth rate in Europe at 1.36 children per Read more

Cardinal: German women should stay home and have children... Read more]]> German women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world" to increase the birth rate, according to Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne.

He said immigration is not the answer to the demographic crisis in Germany, which has the lowest birth rate in Europe at 1.36 children per woman.

The cardinal compared the government's family policies to those of Communist East Germany, where women who wanted to stay at home to look after their children were considered "demented".

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