The legislation facilitating the parental allowance, which was introduced in January 2007, was passed very quickly because of an awareness that due to Germany's steadily falling birthrate--it is now the fifth lowest in the world--the German people face a real danger of dying out.
由於德國出生率一年比一年低，目前已名列世界倒數前 5 名，在「瀕臨絕種」的國族危機意識下，很快立法通過這項提案，已經在 2007 年一月上路。