FAMILIES OTHER THAN YOURS (1/10) – The Massons have five children, a large house in the city thanks to generous parents and habits set like clockwork.
Injunctions of all kinds, tension between family life and work, clash of generations: “parenthood” has become complicated in recent years. What values do they want to pass on to their children? How do they talk to them about the world that is emerging? What is missing from their happiness? Le Figaro takes a tour of France to meet parents. To ask them to tell what they care about, what they would like to see change.
On the courtyard side, chickens peck in the “Hogwarts”. On the garden side, someone is murdered. “Oh no, it’s okay, if something had really happened to them, they would have already been crawling in here screaming “mamaan”», evacuates Anne-Sophie Masson, begging not to pay attention to the laundry waiting to be folded or to anything in fact, “we’re back from vacation“. Center Parcs, a stay offered by his parents, “we couldn’t have“. While three of his sons chase each other screaming, his only daughter trails behind, grumbling sleepily in the petticoats she is not wearing.
This Sunday, it’s snack time but at the Massons we don’t have snacks on Sundays. “We eat, explains Anne-Sophie. We have dinner at 6 p.m. after having brunch at 10 a.m.“. Saving meals, time, energy of everything. Tonight it will be waffles, the dough is ready, the children can put whatever they like on it. “Where is Jules?», asks Gabriel, Anne-Sophie’s husband, a thirty-year-old with a debonair appearance as he enters the living room. “In his room, said his wife, he finds his toys“. Jules is a loner.
Three in the garden, one in the kitchen, one in his bedroom. The Massons, Gabriel, 37, works supervisor, and Anne-Sophie, 35, nurse at the Maison Laffitte clinic, have five children at a time when the average is 1.84…
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