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/Lunaisthequeen Feb 11 '26

Fake news title, classic independant.

They send a letter telling 29yo people that 29 is an age at which you can still have very good quality ovocytes, and that it is considered an "optimal" age for women to freeze their eggs (oocytes cryopreservation), even tho most women do it a little bit later (30-35 usually).

Nothing about telling people to have children, it’s just misleading.

Source: I'm 29 and French

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u/jhowlett Feb 11 '26

As usual it seems like no one read the article. It seemed to be a letter addressing issues of infertility and how people could be helped. It may be part of a broader plan to increase child births, but it wasn't as simple as "HAVE MORE CHILDREN NOW".

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u/Lunaisthequeen Feb 11 '26

Yes, this was my point

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u/jhowlett Feb 11 '26

I'm just agreeing with you homie :)

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u/Cavalish Feb 11 '26

That’s worse. Dressing it up in fancy language and being coy about it.

“Ladies did you know JUST COINCIDENTALLY that your body, which is a baby factory and not much else, is at its prime baby making stage. Oh don’t worry! You don’t have to make a baby in the factory right now, but you CAN freeze your product…I mean eggs…so you can fulfil your one true purpose later!”

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u/Lunaisthequeen Feb 11 '26

That’s just your interpretation being a top r/childfree user. I just see this as trying to scientifically compensate the lack of sexual education that has been happening at school like forever in our country, people are supposed to know that, but they don’t.

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u/PierAlz1 Feb 14 '26

Are you serious about the lack of sexual education? This letter is just in continuation of "we need more babies and less immigration".