Baby vacuum: Germany to start paying families to take IVF to reverse dwindling birthrate
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By Allan Hall, Mailonline
Germany is poised to start paying couples who want families to have IVF treatment as it seeks ways to reverse its drastically declining birthrate.
Family minister Kristina Schröder also pledged to cut down on bureaucracy for people who want to adopt.
Pregnant herself and expecting a baby in June, Mrs. Schröder, said she found it ’intolerable’ that couples wanted children but couldn’t afford the cost of medical treatment.
In an interview with Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung she went on; 'We rarely talk about it, but most people know friends or relatives who have this misfortune.'
Germany’s population is aging fast; it has the lowest birthrate in Europe and parts of depressed former Communist East Germany have the lowest in the world.
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