excuse, dear parents, your sweet children were wonderful, very generous!
The babies survived their apparently good photo opportunity. The first mention, a little thank you is due, first of all the parents. Their children are finally not objects. Even media-culture must now and then in the criticism. In the Spiegel Online article, from which the image quote, there was no such mention. - Or are the Children have been cobbled together digitally? That's what I get today, on 31.12.09, one and a half hours before midnight, not out. The small addendum to my doubts, I take this opportunity to wish my readers a Happy New Year 2010.
Suppose that all children are real and German, have a German passport. Then they are equal in debt - the state debt, we know.
Let's say that we live in a global world that some of the children born abroad. These children were given a German baby passport if one parent is German and is registered in Germany. If both parents live abroad, mainly and use the German resident only sporadically, then the children of such mixed marriages, child benefit is denied in Germany, although these children have a German passport, so are German.
Not Pass decisionmaking for child support, but the stay. The German authorities look through the key hole. If the requested empty flat in Germany, no one is there, then drew suspicion. Then the family may be staying mostly abroad, it is presumed, despite living in Germany. Then the child benefit is deleted. Other countries depend on the pass, you pay the legal citizens of their small child benefit, no matter where they live in the moment. Note that citizenship is lived and globally. The living conditions are left to the parents. These countries, unlike Germany, do not let its citizens down.
If we look at the passport of a young child from such a mixed marriage and read "Federal Republic of Germany," then one thing is clear: the state debt is saddled with the child in proportion, advantages of nationality has it does not. Often such parents missing abroad, the child benefit, the decisive contribution to schedule more visits to Germany and the child naturally German, the mother or father-language, learn to leave.