For anyone else wondering why 29-year-olds specifically:
The letter is being sent to 29-year-olds because women are able to have their eggs frozen at that age without a medical certificate. Women will also be reminded that social security in France covers the cost of freezing eggs for women between 29 and 37.
The article also does mention the arguments that short maternity leave, environmental concerns, and negative outlooks on the future in the country deters people from having children.
So not quite as harsh as the “hurry up and reproduce!” message the title implies.
Knowing how society, government, and policy have evolved over the past few decades, if any woman gets her eggs frozen, the elites will just take ownership if said eggs once the artificial wombs are perfected… or once they get enough slave surrogates to do it in the shadows on some island somewhere.
Ok that’s actually reasonable. “Hey you’re getting older, if you want kids now’s a good age to either start trying or freeze some eggs” is something I never would have thought was necessary until entering my 30s and learning multiple people older than me in my life absolutely did not understand that they were approaching the “now or never” age and well into the age where bad luck can take all the chances they have left.
It’s weird hearing people in their mid 30s say they plan on having kids someday
For anyone else wondering why 29-year-olds specifically:
The article also does mention the arguments that short maternity leave, environmental concerns, and negative outlooks on the future in the country deters people from having children.
So not quite as harsh as the “hurry up and reproduce!” message the title implies.
Knowing how society, government, and policy have evolved over the past few decades, if any woman gets her eggs frozen, the elites will just take ownership if said eggs once the artificial wombs are perfected… or once they get enough slave surrogates to do it in the shadows on some island somewhere.
Ok that’s actually reasonable. “Hey you’re getting older, if you want kids now’s a good age to either start trying or freeze some eggs” is something I never would have thought was necessary until entering my 30s and learning multiple people older than me in my life absolutely did not understand that they were approaching the “now or never” age and well into the age where bad luck can take all the chances they have left.
It’s weird hearing people in their mid 30s say they plan on having kids someday
FTFY.
I mean, FFS. Have they no eyes, ears, or lungs? gestures at all this current reality 🥺
I had my first kid at 40. I wasn’t raising kids in poverty or expecting to saddle a huge education debt on them.