Dorbritz, Jürgen - In: Demographic Research 19 (2008) 17, pp. 557-598
Germany is a low-fertility country with a rapidly ageing population, and will remain so for the foreseeable future …. There are several reasons for this trend. Germany is among the countries with the highest rates of childlessness in the …-marital cohabitation, lone parenthood, patchwork families and living apart together. A culture of individualism has spread in Germany which …