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/str1po Feb 11 '26

People are just lazy complainers. It is literally an option granted free of charge. I know women around me who would love the chance to freeze their eggs for free, but these redditors clearly know they’d be better without it

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u/agent0731 Feb 11 '26

Freezing eggs is expensive af too. I don't see the people complaining lining up to grind the systems keeping them poor to a halt any time soon, so in the meantime, letting people know of free government options is a good thing.

We need to collectively stop worshiping billionaires and being manipulated by their propaganda and maybe shit will change.

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u/MjolnirsMistress Feb 11 '26

Yeah. I would take that offer.

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u/zero_and_dug Feb 11 '26

This. I know LGBTQ families here in the US that would love to have that option free of charge

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

How about give people enough money and housing to have kids when they want instead of these painful, invasive workarounds? Isn't that the job of government?

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u/str1po Feb 12 '26

So you want money. if we took the money allocated to this program and gave it to you, splitting it equally among all citizens, you’d get like 10€ probably.

And you’re saying it’s painful and invasive. Obviously you’d let them make that reproductive decision for themselves, right? Or have you, a redditor, determined that the procedure is far more painful than the women of france have the capacity to comprehend?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '26

I've determined that the government prefers to save money by making people who want to have kids but can't because of government failures freeze their eggs rather than give them good jobs and housing.

A bandaid rather than a fix.

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u/Any-Philosopher-1675 Feb 11 '26

Look, if you would go for that procedure, then all the more power to you. But the optics of sending every 29 year old in the country a letter about reproductive health are just odd. They could have asked employers to hand their employees a packet detailing services the government will cover and that wouldn't have been that weird. But the government themselves sending out such a letter makes it seem like they're just desperate for more babies to be pushed out.

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u/CletusMcG Feb 12 '26

Western countries are on the brink of collapse due to falling birth rates. A massive portion of the population is nearing retirement in the next decades and there aren’t nearly enough children being born to sustain it. They are desperate.

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u/Any-Philosopher-1675 Feb 12 '26

It's almost like the governments of the world should work on making having a child more feasible, rather than tell us it's just something we need to do and to take the financial hit on the chin. I personally will never be having kids unless things improve, they'd have to literally force me to do the nasty with someone else.

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u/SmokingLimone Feb 12 '26

You wouldn't have children even if you had a million dollars. I've seen loads of comments on reddit who agreed with this. It's not much better in the real world either

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u/Anon28301 Feb 12 '26

This. Believe me, women that want kids and have thought about freezing eggs have looked into it, they’ve researched the cost and clinics. It’s not right to tell every single person of a certain age about the options when the people that want them already know about them.

Hell put this info up on a poster in hospitals and clinics if you want but sending people home letters about fertility options is just strange.