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"Europe is in a demographic crisis": What can we do about it?

A woman pushes a pram along the embankment in the Black Sea resort town of Alushta March 11, 2014. Ukraine's Crimean peninsular evokes in many Russians and citizens of the former Soviet Union memories of summer holidays in the resorts and sanatoriums along its subtropical Black Sea coast. Crimea is also the place from where Christianity spread throughout what was then called Kievan Rus', a federation of Slavic tribes that later became Russia.

New research looks at the childcare burden placed on mothers, and its influence on fertility rates. Image: REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Fabian Kindermann
Assistant Professor, University of Bonn
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 Total fertility rates in Europe
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 Disagreement over having babies across Europe
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 Men’s contribution to childcare and disagreement over having babies
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 The cost of raising fertility depending on targeting subsidies to women or men
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