France: the most fertile nation in the European Union

Barbara Fernandez
EAP2A
February 3, 2009

In this article, France touts rising fertility rate, Pierre-Yves Roger explains the rising fertility in France. In 2006 France had more birth rates than ever. Because of this situation the population of this country increased and it got a high numbers of babies. The author also tells about others aspects that have influenced to this country and to this issue, such as the government offers, life expectancy increase, and marriages that are still declining. All of these topics are related with the issue that the fertility in France is still rising, and the consequence of this is that there are more babies, in particular in 2006.

There are many countries in the European Union, and France is the one that has the highest fertility rate. It could be related with many factors that probably many countries have, but not in the same way. Births, marriages and incentives could be a big influence in this topic, fertility rate.

The main reason population and fertility increase is births. It is something logical because population cannot increase if there are no births. The increase depends on the number of children that a woman has or wants to have. Of course, there are more factors that have influence, but biologically, women have the control of this situation.

Another issue related with this topic is marriages. In this issue I can tell about children that a couple could have, and children that a single woman wants to have. I think that population and fertility are increasing because nowadays most people do not care about whether they bring up a child alone or with a partner. I respect each of the decisions that a woman can makes, but I think that the best future for a child will be to grow with parents. So the reason fertility is rising is that people usually have children, even if they are not married.

The last point of view is about incentives that the government usually give in this issue. When the government of any country gives benefits for people, it is easy and good for them to make the decision to have children. If you have someone or something good that boosts you to do something, probably you will do it. The decision to have children or not to have them depends on people and their lives, but an important influence is the incentives that people could receive to get what they want. So because of these incentives, people usually have children, and the population and the fertility used to increase.

In conclusion, the fertility of our country is in our hand, we have the control and the power to decide what we want.


Roger, P. (2007, January 16). France touts rising fertility rate. The Associated Press. Retrieved on February 2, 2009. From http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/16/AR2007011600720_pf.html

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