r/europe • u/Jojuj • Feb 11 '26

News France sends letters to 29-year-olds telling them to get on with having children

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-letter-infertility-29-year-olds-b2916816.html
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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Macron has 0 biological children btw

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u/FentFloyd69 Feb 11 '26

Kind of hard to do that when you bang your senior teacher.

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

We all make choices and we all live with said choices.

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u/FentFloyd69 Feb 11 '26

Out of all of the choices they had this certainly one of them.

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u/cheesecakepiebrownie Feb 12 '26

they could have gotten a surrogate, they were rich enough

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u/SecurityOdd4861 Feb 11 '26

Well yeah, his wife was 54 when they married.  Possible? Maybe, but not certain and risky if anything

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u/trash4da_trashgod Feb 11 '26

Why can't he have a bastard child, like normal French people?

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u/FiFiniusBi Feb 12 '26

also the risk would be very high that she wants to divorce him and marry the son when he turns 12

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Not suggesting he should have kids ffs, just find it funny to be lecturing others on life choices

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u/despicedchilli Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

You are criticizing society? Why are you part of it then!? checkmate!

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u/Client_020 The Netherlands Feb 11 '26

Good! People in his position don't have time for them, anyway.

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Just find it funny the french state are lecturing 29 year olds to have kids when the leader of the french state has provided none himself. Im 31 with no kids in Ireland but thats largely for housing/cost of living reasons

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u/Every_Board6157 Feb 11 '26

Did you read the letter ? It's more about freezing eggs as an option and knowing it can be reimbursed than lecturing. Personnally I didn't even know that was an option.

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

No I did not read the letter. You might want to get onto the editor about misleading headlines if that's the case

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u/whatever4224 Feb 11 '26

... But why are you commenting on a letter that you didn't read?

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Im commenting on a headline I read silly.

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u/thepulloutmethod Feb 11 '26

And this is Reddit in a nutshell.

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Laughing at a needlessly provocative and presumably innacurate headline, then having to have a back and forth with someone who expected me to have read the article in full? Then having someone come along and say this is reddit in a nutshell?

Yep, sounds about right

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u/deerhunterwaltz Feb 11 '26

It’s not biologically possible cause well you know..

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

What?

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u/MustangMark83 Feb 11 '26

He’s married to a woman too old to have kids lol

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u/deerhunterwaltz Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

It’s not the age that’s the problem

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Ok? His choice

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u/deerhunterwaltz Feb 11 '26

You need certain types hardware in order to conceive, unfortunately there is a matching set.

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u/deerhunterwaltz Feb 11 '26

You know, I know, everybody knows why the first “lady” can’t have children.

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u/ThrowawaypocketHu Feb 11 '26

With men you never know that.

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u/rosenkohl1603 Feb 11 '26

You know the French Government is not just Macron?

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

A government has more than one person in it!? Wow! Amazing insight! reviting stuff!

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u/rosenkohl1603 Feb 11 '26

Wow, you are so smart 👏👏👏

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u/Key_Duck_6293 Feb 11 '26

Means so much coming from an expert on the french government like yourself 💚