Albert Mohler: Falling Birthrates, Empty Cribs, and Collapsing Worldviews
Tuesday, October 09, 2007

What really explains the disastrous fall in European birthrates? The collapse of birthrates in Europe covers almost the entire continent and has left many observers scratching their heads in puzzlement. Writing in The Weekly Standard, Steve Ozment, Professor of History at Harvard University argues that the contemporary German vision of the good life, for example, simply does not include kids. Children are prime life-style interrupters, and today's Germans, as one leading German politician argues, increasingly look for a life of constant fun.

Ozment, author of A Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, points to the bleak future of a Germany kept operational only by an influx of young Muslims. He argues that Germany could soon become "religiously if not yet politically, a mixed Muslim state within a quarter-century." the rest