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Well-adjusted and well cared-for children are the edifice sustaining both public and private investment - their future productivity will generate the demand tha
by marchenko 10y ago
Well-adjusted and well cared-for children are the edifice sustaining both public and private investment - their future productivity will generate the demand that gives value to savings and investment. I suspect Germany will get a good rate of return on the rabbit-raising, goatherding,beekeeping, highly-valued Ehler kids.
- malcolmgreaves 10y agoAs the article clearly points out, the Ehlers are not able to support and take care of 4 children. They all will not be well-adjusted and well cared-for children. They will not form a cornerstone of the German economy or society. They will not be as productive as they could be if they were being raised by mature, responsible parents who know their own limitations.
- marchenko 10y agoFrom the brief description, and the photos, they appear to be raising healthy children in an orderly home with an level of enrichment and parental investment many children would envy. I suspect the burden of the financial strain is being borne largely by the parents. Poverty of this sort does not necessarily, or even generally, produce maladjustment. German politicians endlessly polemnicize about the need to increase the birthrate, and there are a lot of contradictory social pressures surrounding family size (Rabenmutters: yay or nay?). I am not surprised that based on political rhetoric and the confusing tangle of statutory entitlements the Ehlers expected more financial support than they eventually discovered. If it were possible to buy 'Ehler offspring futures', I would invest.
- tamana 10y agoYou can offer them a loan at a reasonable interest rate, and profit from their future.