The Anchoress quotes Pope Benedict XVI: "“Europe is infected by a strange lack of desire for the future. Children, our future, are perceived as a threat to the present, as though they were taking something away from our lives. Children are seen - at least by some people - as a liability rather than as a source of hope. Here it is obligatory to compare today’s situation with the decline of the Roman Empire.”

Possibly the Culture of Death has something to do with it."

I think so too. My wife just read that German men were happier if they were fathers; and more happy with more kids. Me too!