Our thanks to M for this piece.

Ursula von der Leyen, the mother of seven children, became Germany’s first-ever female defence minister last month. This genius has already established that what the German military ‘needs’ is a flexible childcare system:

http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2568346-german-minister-pledges-family-friendly-military.html#.1258-stage-subhero1-1