Frankreich schickt Briefe an 29-Jährige, in denen es sie auffordert, mit dem Kinderkriegen weiterzumachen
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-letter-infertility-29-year-olds-b2916816.html
Von Jojuj
Frankreich schickt Briefe an 29-Jährige, in denen es sie auffordert, mit dem Kinderkriegen weiterzumachen
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-letter-infertility-29-year-olds-b2916816.html
Von Jojuj
38 Kommentare
you can’t fix falling birth rates with letters when the real issue is housing costs childcare costs and people not feeling secure enough to start families in the first place
This could be deemed as effective as sending a letter to our politician fellows not to steal and not to accept bribes. 🤪
Give me a house and I will give you a child.
Oh no, our demographics are totally fucked because of all our bad political decisions. What should we do?
I have a brilliant idea, let’s send out a letter to all 29 year olds, that’ll get them to breed more!
Details of the letter are oddly specific:
> The letter is being sent to 29-year-olds because women are able to have their eggs frozen at that age without a medical certificate. Women will also be reminded that social security in France covers the cost of freezing eggs for women between 29 and 37.
This reminds me of those patronising articles telling young people of my generation that they’re not able to afford housing because they’re not working hard enough and eating avocados on toast, rather than accepting that buying property has been pushed out of reach of people on normal incomes.
I don’t like adopting terms like ‚boomers‘ but there’s nothing like the generation who have lecturing the generations who have not as they begin to panic about who’s going to fund their pension pot…
People are feeling that their futures are unstable and that they’ll be doing worse than their parents. They’re being shoved into ever more unstable housing situations and ever longer and harder to climb career ladders that are stretching situations that are tolerable in your early 20s into your 40s.
If people don’t feel they are economically secure, particularly around housing, they’re just going to delay everything about their lives. Patronising letters and pep talks aren’t going to resolve that.
You will breed and you will be happy!
They should include tons of money in that letter.
A totally failed strategy.
What we need to do is add viagra to drinking water, and make as manny underwear road signs as possible.
Or we could lower the housing prices?
Lmao, maybe fix the cost of living and the extreme political and economic uncertainty first and maybe people will want to bring children into this world
Le non.
Will the letter include a copy of Boléro to set the mood?
France up until quite recently had a much higher birth rate than most other European countries. I very much doubt this had anything to do with Catholicism but with their nursery provision and pronatalist policies which stems from World War One and the great loss of young male lives. It was seen as a national mission to increase the population.
our rich overlords need more worker units
i’m in america, there’s even less of a safety net here yet people are having kids. Meanwhile i have dogs and cats
That should work.
I think childless people will get fucked over in next 20 years with increased taxation and lower benefits than people who decided to have children. Basically we will be in do your part or don’t expect to be treated with same regard territory
Many governements refuse to treat the real reasons. And they are all very good to do useless action.
It’s kind of disgusting to me
What the actual fuck!? 🤦♂️
this is both sad and hilarious at the same time fix the cost of living make housing actually affordable and stop playing political games then maybe we can consider actually bringing in children to the dystopian hellscape that we made our planet in to this is not specifically for France this is for the entire world the population is falling because y’all failed to make the world a place in which people would actually want to raise families in to why the fuck would i ever want to have children only for me to not be able to feed and provide for them
A letter is going to do a lot of good !!
Perhaps start by simply asking men and, especially, women what would encourage them to have children
Surely the way to encourage couples to have more children is to significantly improve the benefits and reduce the costs? Obviously needs careful discussion but perhaps include:
* A minimum of 12 months paid maternity leave for both parents which can be broken into several periods and which parents can chose to take concurrently or consecutively.
* That where practical, parents have a legal right to work from home both during maternity leave and until the youngest child reaches the age of, say, 7.
* A guarantee that parents can return to their previous job at the same level and same pay as before taking leave.
* Employers not allowed to get rid of returning parents for 2 years from when they return.
* Free childcare from, say, 6 months until the child starts school.
* Child Benefit at a decent level – the current rates in the UK are pretty minimal.
* Free schooling, including further and higher education for children.
Of course, most countries in Europe implement many of these at various levels in which case, it needs reviewing.
And, of course, employers will complain and say it’s not possible.
Macron has 0 biological children btw
People have no kids because they need to support the overblown pension system with their taxes. Ironically, that very system requires people to have many kids to make it sustainable
This doesn’t include me but awww hell no! I get kids when i get my life fixed and have some stability
Whats the real thinking here.
They’re smart enough to know no one is going to read this and go „oh shit yeah, I knew I was forgetting something.“
So whats the real goal?
The mediocrity has no bottom it seems…
29 is the age at which women are allowed to freeze eggs in France fwiw, the demographic issue is heavy in many ways, especially in the economical sense.
But as someone with kids and grandkids, i can understand young people being reluctant to take the risk of putting a child into this world not even being sure they’ll be able to care for it on the long run.
That’s a fucked up situation if there ever was one, the three latest, absolutely batshit mediocre administrations have literally finished ruining a country that had already been punched in the gut economically for decades from inside and by all the actors who didn’t like the EU becoming larger.
Tell the billionaires to give the 29-year-olds their money back, using the legal avenues of taxation available to you already, and maybe they’ll choose to have babies of their own free will.
Meanwhile the 60+ demeographic keeps getting higher pensions at the cost of everyone else’s income.
May be tax billionaires to help younger people ?
Only one reason for this problem.
Interest rates are kept much too low by central banks. This allowed explosion is asset prices (especially real estate) and relative devaluation of work.
This is simply due to the ever greater need to take from the young to give to the old. « Maintaining social order » as ex BoJ Kuroda said.
This will just accelerate. Elderly will just become more and won’t become less selfish with time.
In a very short time, much of worlds economy is going to be focus on geriatric healthcare (reason why I am in the field).
This of course will suck even more money from the younger generations and decrease fertility rates even lower.
One time into the close future, there just wont be anyone left to take take of the mass of elderly.
Their quality of life will collapse. Healthcare will be restricted and it is absolutely certain Euthanasia rates will explode.
20 years of this the « elder pipeline » will be empty and I bet you’ll see humongous deflation afterwards.
In 2100 world population would have plummeted. Forest would have outgrown suburbs since a long time.
And the few remaining youth will find great joy in repopulating the now much emptier planet.
Macron is telling others to do what he himself wasn’t able to do. That’s the height of absurdity.
Housing cost
I remember all the people with kids some years ago, when the crisis was in its peak, many of them lost job and home, they were told „you should have thought twice before having kids“, „you lived beyond your means“…and so on… many of them survived thanks to grandparents.
So many got the message „you are on your own“.
Honey! The government told us to start having babies!
Be right there dear, just throwing out my diaphragm!
A house/flat for a couple after 3 chldren would solve the birthrate crisis in most european countries CMM
Is he sending a free book of Titeuf „Le guide du zizi sexuel“ ?
Too bad I’m not French and no longer 29 yo but I’d have sent a letter for the government to start making the world worth living.
creepy