[LIVRE] The child is the future of man: plea from a committed young mother

Thursday, November 14, INSEE released its annual report on the number of births last year: the year 2023 represents “ a decline of an unprecedented magnitude since the end of the baby boom », « births decline by 6.6% between 2022 and 2023 “. How to explain this collapse? Aziliz Le Corre, in his work, published by Éditions Albin Michel last September, first attempted to explain this non-desire for children in France and the West, then to counter the fallacious arguments and above all to show that The child is the future of Man.

Aziliz Le Corre is a trained philosopher and his entire book retains the depth of his studies. Drawing on ancient mythology, the Bible and all of Western philosophical culture, the journalist shows how our era is undergoing a “ inversion of values » and that “ the entire West is a victim of this decline ».

Submission to consumerist dictates

The author begins by analyzing everything that, today, slows down or even prevents these births. All postmodern excesses or ideologies are scrutinized and explain this non-desire or rather this non-will to give birth: neo-Malthusianism, consumer society, narcissistic society, unstable society, neo-feminism: everything is done to disgust the couples to become parents. Using pretexts in the era of the times such as that of ecology, the anti-patriarchal fight or even in the name of sacrosanct personal development, men and women no longer want to have children, condemning themselves thus to no longer be: “ The No Kids deny humanity by not making it happen. But, worse still, they deconstruct it by disavowing what it is based on: the otherness of man and woman, the family as a natural entity in which the child is the outcome of conjugal love. » She thus shows how, far from freeing themselves from the “heteronormative injunction” to have children, or even from a “heteronormative cultural logic”, women and men submit to the new dictates of a consumerist society eager for ‘to have rather than to be. Pursuing a barrel of Danaids of material desires, couples who make and break find “ a way of donning the trappings of virtue the refusal to become a father or mother ».

However, Aziliz Le Corre demonstrates how, far from only concerning individuals, this refusal to give birth endangers the whole of society: family life is the first learning of life in community, it teaches how to build ” common house “. Thus, as the author of this plea for the child says: “ Anthropologically, the family unit is the matrix of our civilization. » It’s a snake biting its tail. If there is no longer anything in common, there is nothing left to build and nothing to transmit. Indeed, when “ the collective has disappeared and [que] individuals wander according to consumption or their personal interests », how to have a child, which requires self-denial, sacrifice, responsibility and forgetting of oneself? And above all, what’s the point? “ What can we transmit as parents to this new being if we no longer have a common heritage? » Aziliz Le Corre deplores this society which no longer wants to play the game of “ common good » but who, by running behind the particular good, ends up denying himself and condemning himself to self-destruction. Thus, this book is that of a young mother who seeks to show that “ motherhood is not an alienation “, that being a parent, biologically, spiritually or by adoption, is at the same time a common good, a natural law, a great happiness and above all essential to humanity.

This book is a vibrant, philosophical and sociological plea for women, for men, for mothers, for fathers and for those who, children today, will be children tomorrow. they don’t stay[ent] not at the threshold of their existence ».