The presidential election will have allowed us to know more about the private life of the candidates. Invited to the program “Au tableau” during his 2017 campaign, Emmanuel Macron had faced schoolchildren. Questioned by the little ones, the outgoing president had had the opportunity to make some confidences as to his paternity. Indeed, married since 2007 with Brigitte Macron, the politician has chosen not to have children. A decision he explained in front of the little ones on the C8 show after a student asked him: “ Do you miss not being a father? »
What, Emmanuel Macron had answered with sincerity: “ It’s a choice I made. My wife Brigitte, she had three children [Sébastien (né en 1975), Laurence (née en 1977) et Tiphaine (née en 1984), ndlr]. Some were tall when I met them and one was smaller. The last one was your age. And afterwards, we asked ourselves the question and I considered that the most important thing is that you raise your children well, that you love them. And then I have seven grandchildren. »
A “selfish” choice for Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Macron then added that he would have been ” selfish from him to become a father. ” There are several types of family and what matters is that it is always a love project. The most unbearable thing is a family where people don’t love each other and so we made the choice not to have children for me because that would have been a somewhat selfish choice, I think. I don’t miss it because I love Brigitte’s children as if they were mine and I love our grandchildren as if they were mine “, he confided. So a personal choice…
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