To think France's plan to write to every 29 year old reminding them to breed is patronising nonsense??

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Nobody alive is forgetting to do this

A lot of people don't want to because in the modern era it's not necessary and a lot less fun than other stuff

Some people DO want to but can't in which case idk give them the missing tools or funds

But nobody is forgetting

Why does this whole topic seem to bamboozle policymakers so hard?

Can't see that one working.

I havent heard of this, what is this?

Now now, don’t forget to make yourselves time impoverished, sleep impoverished, energy impoverished, and impoverished impoverished.

It’s your duty

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/french-government-letter-birth-rates-29-year-olds-zjkqmr6bc

Honestly I can only imagine this making a few people decide in the other direction

This can’t be true

I'm telling you policy people these days are dummies

If true, patronising AND offensive!

It's to remind women that they can freeze their eggs for free, which is pretty new in France, and I guess raise awarness about the risks of infertility.

Oh no not the inability to do something they don't want to do anyway anything but that

Honestly the Basics walk among us and it's freaky

I didn't know about the egg freezing. It sounds patronising, but by the number of posts on here that go "you can have kids at 42, no problem", perhaps a little public education in the UK is needed, as well.

Nobody on the goddamn planet is surprised by this.

Fewer people are breeding because it has always been the case that a fair number simply don't want to and this is the first time ever that it has become genuinely optional.

Treating adults like morons is just a recipe for disengagement from government.

But yes, actually making it possible to house, raise and feed kids would be a nice strategy.

It's part of a National Infertility programme, part of which is free IVF and letting women know about this scheme's availability. But that isn't click-baity enough of a headline

Well a lot of people suffer from infertility so surely they want to have kids otherwise they wouldn't even know they were infertile, right?

For years, egg retrieval process + freeze was free only under the condition that a woman would donate her eggs (in France egg donations are not paid so its not easy to attract donors).
In recent years that has changed, now a woman can keep all her eggs without donating some, all paid by the health services.

This doesn’t surprise me. When I almost married my French ex, I recall being horrified at the ‘dossier’ we had to prepare beforehand at the behest of the town hall, which was to include a full gynaecological examination. The fact I was already ‘proven’ (in that we’d already bred) didn’t seem to make one iota of difference.

Thankfully we never compiled the ‘dossier’ and never got married.

I don't care if it's part of a plan to put Frenchwomen on Mars

It's bullshit nonsense

"dear 29 year old we've noticed you're not very interested in nappies and sleep deprivation! Did you know your time to experience this amazing deal is limited?? What's that you say yes you did because you're capable of reading hence your ability to read this letter?"

I'm interested to know if the French healthcare and education systems could cope if everyone read the letter and then had unprotected sex every day consecutively until they were pregnant or had got someone else pregnant (although obviously the powers that be wouldn't be expecting that level of response).

When I worked in Paris in the late 1980s, there was a government campaign to boost the birth rate. There were posters with photos of babies and also a regular short tv programme late every evening called "Super Sexy". It was basically soft porn (rather "Benny Hill" in style, iirc), designed to encourage people to breed. I can't imagine that it was effective.

Fortunately for these systems it ain't gonna happen

Many cancer patients would love to be able to preserve eggs for free.

Hahaha this reminds me of the danish "do it for grandma" adverts

Vomit all round

Well they probably should be told it's not that effective

I call BS. No one is forced to have a gynaecological examination to get married. All my friends are married and not one, not a single one had to do a medical exam

Im sure they are? And what’s the alternative? Some chance is better than zero chance.