With limited childcare and resources, parents are stretched thin during summer vacation months. If Germany wants more children, it needs to start giving parents more vacation days or more childcare options.
Author: Johannes Schneider
He holds a degree in cultural studies. He studied creative writing and cultural journalism in Hildesheim and German studies in St. Louis. He interned at the Tagesspiegel newspaper from 2010, where he helped develop the concept for the Saturday supplement “Mehr Berlin,” which he edited from 2013 to 2017. After an interlude at “Greenpeace Magazin,” he has been an editor at ZEIT ONLINE since 2018, and in the Political Arts section of DIE ZEIT and ZEIT ONLINE since 2024.
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