Germany may have Saved Itself from too much Covid-19 via it's Parenting.
[Caveat: mostly speculation as I do not have the exact numbers] Germany has one of the lowest unemployment numbers in the world. It seems that German parenting results in children that are self reliant. At the playground, they casually look after their kids from afar--i.e., they do not helicopter like here in the U.S. Also, the German parent allows almost carte blanche when it comes to their kids learning on their own. While we're teaching kids their ABC's, the Germans are still allowing their kids to play their hearts out. The resulting phenomenon, I suspect, results in more empty nests than elsewhere in the world, and an empty nest is one that won't be infected by adult children returning to the sanctuary of the nest. If Germany's immigrant population does not suffer from COVID-19, then we have to say that it is only because German health authorities are doing something right. If the immigrant population suffers, then my theory holds and it is the German empty nes...