Now, my mom and dad are both one of three children. My grandmother was one of six children in her family at the end of the Second World War, and this was considered a normal-sized family. I want to give you a short example of the above statistics using my family history.
(This is, of course, not exclusive to Germany, and is also happening in other first-world countries.) This means that every year, more people die than are being born, and our average age is getting older and older from year to year. When you look over the demographics of Germany, you can clearly see that we are a dying nation. Might this be because German families aren’t so different from those in the U.S.
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But first, you’ll need to know some basic family terms, like how to say “father” in German.
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Well, this is fair enough, and we definitely encourage going for the full Germany experience. Imagine that you’re traveling to good old Germany, and you want the real experience (not just staying in a hotel or hostel like everyone else).