Post by Jaga on Aug 5, 2007 20:04:13 GMT -7
Here is an interesting article about not enough babies born in Poland, Hungary. Czech republic. Slovakia is still in a bit better situation.
The same is in my family. No any of my nieces or nephews are going to get married or having a child soon and almost all of them are in the age 20-25....
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below is a fragment from the article from BBC:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6929516.stm
Population levels across many parts of the developed world are declining, but this is particularly noticeable in former Eastern Bloc states where the number of children being born has plummeted within a generation.
The exception is Slovakia, where a bundle arrives every day with a postmark from the 1970s. Former Czechoslovak leader Gustav Husak keeps sending gifts.
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In Hungary after the failed 1956 revolution, in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring in 1968 and in Poland after martial law in 1981, the birth rate rose spectacularly. It was as if the youth, frustrated in their desire for greater political freedom, took consolation in their desire for one another.
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She has studied the French statistics in detail, and says the only women having lots of children in France today are immigrants. "And we don't let our immigrants stay long enough."
Poland has a growing labour shortage, as its young and skilled workers flood west, to countries like Britain and Ireland. And the latest research shows they plan to stay longer than they originally thought.
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At the other end of the demographic scale, Jan Hartl in Prague mourns the disappearance of the profession of grandparent.
In the 1970s, you became a grandparent at 45, he says. Grandparents saw their main role in life to care for their grandchildren.
Now the elderly can expect to live longer, but families are more scattered, and the children, by the time they start having children of their own, are more financially secure.
So the children sit at computer or television screens. And the line of transmission of knowledge, from the old to the very young, breaks down.
The elderly feel they have no-one to talk to.
The same is in my family. No any of my nieces or nephews are going to get married or having a child soon and almost all of them are in the age 20-25....
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below is a fragment from the article from BBC:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6929516.stm
Population levels across many parts of the developed world are declining, but this is particularly noticeable in former Eastern Bloc states where the number of children being born has plummeted within a generation.
The exception is Slovakia, where a bundle arrives every day with a postmark from the 1970s. Former Czechoslovak leader Gustav Husak keeps sending gifts.
....
In Hungary after the failed 1956 revolution, in Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring in 1968 and in Poland after martial law in 1981, the birth rate rose spectacularly. It was as if the youth, frustrated in their desire for greater political freedom, took consolation in their desire for one another.
...
She has studied the French statistics in detail, and says the only women having lots of children in France today are immigrants. "And we don't let our immigrants stay long enough."
Poland has a growing labour shortage, as its young and skilled workers flood west, to countries like Britain and Ireland. And the latest research shows they plan to stay longer than they originally thought.
...
At the other end of the demographic scale, Jan Hartl in Prague mourns the disappearance of the profession of grandparent.
In the 1970s, you became a grandparent at 45, he says. Grandparents saw their main role in life to care for their grandchildren.
Now the elderly can expect to live longer, but families are more scattered, and the children, by the time they start having children of their own, are more financially secure.
So the children sit at computer or television screens. And the line of transmission of knowledge, from the old to the very young, breaks down.
The elderly feel they have no-one to talk to.