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low birth rates. It prolonged the life expectancy , for males the average is about 77 years for women is over 82 years. In Germany are born twins quite often and many women have their first and often only child until the age of 40. I think it is mostly the question in vitro. Furthermore, in Germany, abortion is legal and is not generally viewed negatively if the woman who doesn’t want children and remove the pregnancy. Since 1975 the birth rate of children per woman is approximately 1,3.

Many women in Germany wish too put the career and professional development bevor and put motherhood on the last. Also a lot of people do not want to have a children. There is a group of society which prefer to have a dog and don’t want to complicate their lives and assume full family.

While I was in Germany, I have met with the 80-year old German woman’s statement: “I didn’t ever want to have children, they always annoyed me, and I would have never resigned of my work; my husband was always enough for me” However, you should not portray the image of the German society as a whole, on the base of one statement. There are ordinary families, which are very in love and they have one, two, and sometimes even more children.

Generally one can say that German children are more well-groomed than Polish, and usually the parents care about the good, based on trust relationships with children. At present, young people live a little longer with their parents, which is losed by the fact that more and more people take up studys in college. In Germany, I was surprised by the diversity of cultures that mix in this country. In Poland live mainly Poles. We all like to dress and speak the same language and more then 90 % profess the same religion, Catholicism. According to the fact that salary level in Germany is so high, attracts Poles, Russians, Turks, Italians, Gypsies, Africans, Argentines, Chinese to come to earn money. On the streets of Cologne, for example, it is normal to meet a woman dressed in Muslim attire, an African man dressed in a tunic.

However, you should not portray the image of the German society as a whole, on the base of one statement. There are ordinary families, which are very in love and they have one, two, and sometimes even more children. Generally one can say that German children are more well-groomed than Polish, and usually the parents care about the good, based on trust relationships with children. At present, young people live a little longer with their parents, which is losed by the fact that more and more people take up studys in college. Generally speaking, Germany is open to different cultures and nations, but it does not mean that this applies to the whole society and that their presence does not cosed any conflicts.

When I stayed in Cologne in 2008, there was planed a European summit which was held by parties which opposed to the Islamisation of Europe. The event never took place because of leftist militans in the name of tolerance, threw stones at opponents and the German authorities have condemned the organizers of the summit. I got to know that in Cologne fierce confrontation between opponents and supporters of building a huge mosque with minarets 55 meters height have been continued for several years. In the Pro Kőln organization tried to prevent it, in spite of having almost all the political forces in the city against. According to the media, Pro Kőln is an organization extreme right-wing, xenophobic and

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