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[quote=Anonymous]I'm German and a lot of my friends 'back home' are not married and they do not have children.  Most men are not so eager to get married or do so much later in life.  Education and career play an important part and one is generally not really seen as 'strange' if you are 30 and you are not yet married or childless.  Housing and cost of living are expensive as well unless you live in a very rural area.  Divorce is also very expensive and can take years to complete, especially if there are children in involved.

But, I know that a lot of my friends would prefer to be married and have children.  My childless friends love my children and they spoil them when we go home to visit.  I like that childcare centers and preschools are low cost and the women/men who work there are highly educated in child development.  It is very different here in the U.S.

One poster talked about Iceland.  Young people in Iceland do get married pretty young and they also have children pretty young, but there are also lots of subsidies and benefits from the gov't to encourage them to have children (and not in a bad way).

I think the trend of not having children, having fewer children or children very late in life will continue here in the U.S. as well, especially in urban areas.  [/quote]

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