How not to save the German welfare state....

Apparently bureaucrats at the EU, unacquainted with the realities of raising children, are telling Germany that the solution to their pension problems is to create incentives against women staying at home with their children.  Because obviously, no parents ever decided to stop having children because dealing with the hassles of work, daycare, and parenting became too great. None, ever.

And of course, it's not like Germany's pension problems have anything to do with the fact that there are fewer and fewer young Germans to take the places of their elders as their elders retire.  Except that, of course, this is the entire problem.  And of course, the peoples' betters in Berlin and state governments cannot contemplate the idea that it might be helpful to allow some of these Hausfrauen educate their own children.  It's not like homeschoolers regularly fill their minivans with children.....except, of course, they do.  And vans, and mini school buses.......