If she thinks about it, she thinks she has “heard everything” on her choice not to have a second child. “In my family, people don’t understand at allexplains Anaïs Renaud, 46, home help and mother of a 9-year-old girl. I was told that she would be unhappy, selfish, a child king… All very distressing things that undermine my choice of mother. » One day, an aunt even said to him: “And if you die, have you thought about her? »leaving her stunned.
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In a less brutal style, a week after giving birth, Sophie (the people cited by their first name wish to remain anonymous), a 46-year-old restorer of Gironde paintings and mother of a 4-year-old boy, remembers the words of her own father, himself from large siblings: “We'll have to think about doing the second one, because in a car, there are four seats! »
The publication of the annual demographic report from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (Insee), published Tuesday January 14, shows a trend decline in the number of births since 2011. Thus in 2024, 663,000 children will be born. This is 2.2% less than in 2023 and 21.5% less than in 2010, the year of the last peak in births, notes the publication.
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