https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The City of Copenhagen has launched a campaign to encourage men to have babies before it’s too late. https://www.thelocal.dk/20181030/copenhagen-to-men-hows-your-sperm Tue, 30 Oct 2018 17:41:43 +0100 copenhagen-to-men-hows-your-sperm The number of Germans travelling to Denmark each year is increasing – but the sandy beaches of the Scandinavian country’s west coast are no longer the only reason, according to a report. https://www.thelocal.dk/20170601/german-singles-coming-to-denmark-to-get-pregnant Thu, 01 Jun 2017 15:00:41 +0200 german-singles-coming-to-denmark-to-get-pregnant Remember those sexy ads telling Danes to ‘do it for mom’? Well, they seem to have worked. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160602/sex-campaigns-lead-to-danish-baby-boom Thu, 02 Jun 2016 14:22:42 +0200 sex-campaigns-lead-to-danish-baby-boom Well over half of the single women flocking to Denmark’s booming fertility clinics for insemination come from abroad, according to the latest figures from Denmark’s Health Protection Agency. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160321/foreign-singles-flock-to-danish Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:28:17 +0100 foreign-singles-flock-to-danish If young Danes are suffering from performance anxiety in the sack perhaps it’s because they are being pressured from all directions to start reproducing. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151006/copenhageners-encouraged-to-have-babies-earlier Tue, 06 Oct 2015 10:59:43 +0200 copenhageners-encouraged-to-have-babies-earlier The world's largest sperm bank is circumventing Denmark's "absurd" and "discriminatory" laws on egg donation by paying for trips abroad. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150509/danish-women-offered-sunny-holiday-for-egg-donation Sat, 09 May 2015 16:47:44 +0200 danish-women-offered-sunny-holiday-for-egg-donation In Denmark, you can get your education and health care for free and if you're a woman who still hasn't found the love of your life but still wants a child, the state will also cover your artificial insemination costs. But this is too much, some Danes now argue. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150331/danish-debate-should-the-state-pay-for-fertility-treatment Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:31:00 +0200 danish-debate-should-the-state-pay-for-fertility-treatment If you’re on the lookout for a female partner, Copenhagen is the place to be. The rest of Denmark, not so much. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150312/all-the-single-ladies-live-in-copenhagen Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:25:00 +0100 all-the-single-ladies-live-in-copenhagen The Danish birth rate has increased for the first time in four years, new figures from Statistics Denmark have revealed. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150217/danish-fertility-rate-on-the-rebound Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:06:00 +0100 danish-fertility-rate-on-the-rebound With national fertility rates continually dropping, the Danish school system’s sex education curriculum will no longer just teach teens how to prevent getting pregnant, it will also encourage young people to have children before it’s too late. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141029/danish-students-to-be-taught-to-have-babies Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:36:36 +0100 danish-students-to-be-taught-to-have-babies A reproduction expert at the University of Copenhagen is close to proving that vitamin D deficiency can cause infertility in men. The discovery could soon lead to a first-of-its-kind fertility test. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140821/danish-researcher-on-verge-of-fertility-breakthrough Thu, 21 Aug 2014 16:38:00 +0200 danish-researcher-on-verge-of-fertility-breakthrough