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Natality: “What is important is to follow your personal inclination”
For Edith Vallée, doctor of psychology and pioneer of studies on non-maternity, the financial or ecological reasons put forward by those who do not want children are not sufficient. According to her, the decision not to have children should not be “a rejection, but an attraction towards something other than motherhood”. – (CYRIL BALTA / RADIO FRANCE)
For Edith Vallée, doctor of psychology and pioneer of studies on non-maternity, the financial or ecological reasons put forward by those who do not want children are not sufficient. According to her, the decision not to have children should not be “a rejection, but an attraction towards something other than motherhood”.
There decision not to have children should not be “a rejection, but an attraction towards something other than motherhood“, estimates Edith Vallée, doctor of psychology and pioneer of studies on non-maternity Thursday January 18, in the Franceinfo Talk. For Edith Vallée, the financial or ecological reasons put forward by those who do not want children are not sufficient.
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In 2023, 678,000 babies were born in France, i.e. 6.6% less than the previous yearwhich corresponds to the lowest number of births over one year since 1946, according to the latest demographic study published by INSEE Tuesday January 16.
The same Tuesday, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, promised “a great plan of struggle“against infertility”masculine and feminine“within the perspective of a”demographic rearmament” from France.
