“My reason for not having kids is that I like to sleep. I read a lot, and 1 can sleep throughout the night,” says Gabrielle Thanheiser, thirty-four, a banker in Berlin vacationing in Rome with her live-in boyfriend.12 “We are DINKS,” confirmed Andreas Gerhmann, thirty-seven, using the acronym popular even in Germany for “double income, no kids” couples.13 In the long run, the self-indulgence of DINKS like Gerhmann and Thanheiser may prove more fateful for the German people than the Third Reich.
