The Stork has Changed Flight Plans
Our region has had a problem with the birth rate for around thirty years. From around fourteen percent at the end of the seventies, it's gone down to around seven percent. Ever since birth control was legalized, people have been deciding how many children to have according to their beliefs and economic panoramas. Many young people have also emigrated, to other parts of Spain or abroad. One room schoolhouses that used to impart learning to over fifty kids, have been closed because there are less than five children in their circumscription. In fact, Spain as a country has a problem. For the first time, this year there have been more deaths than births. The government has tried to put patches on a real problem. From spending money on billboards exhorting women to contribute to the population, to little measures that aren't enough on their own. Or that have five truckloads of red tape. The latest from the Galician Consellería de Política Social is a credit card with a hundred m...