A Different Kind of Brain Drain
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Fri, 2007-06-08 08:17
A quote from Ulf Gartzke at The Weekly Standard’s weblog, 7 June 2007
The Old Continent’s demographic trend is even more worrisome when you take into account that in Germany, between 30 and 40 percent (there are different statistics floating around) of all university-educated German women do not have any children at all. This different kind of “brain drain” should be a source of serious concern for a resource-poor country that prides itself on being the “Land of Ideas,” a driver of innovative technologies, and the world’s top exporter.
In Reply to Cogito
Submitted by Kapitein Andre on Sun, 2007-06-10 22:39.
Cogito: "To make things worse, our most beautiful women choose hedonistic lives without children, which is, eh... a pity. Most unfortunate, isn't it?"
How were you able to scientifically correlate aesthetic beauty with the choice not to bear or raise children? Please provide academic peer-reviewed data if you want this statement to be taken seriously. At present, it comes across as a rant by someone who wants to marry and having children with "beautiful women," but who so far, has not achieved success on that count.
Beautiful women
Submitted by Cogito on Sat, 2007-06-09 21:18.
To make things worse, our most beautiful women choose hedonistic lives without children, which is, eh... a pity. Most unfortunate, isn't it?