La Francia invia lettere ai 29enni dicendo loro di continuare ad avere figli

This could be deemed as effective as sending a letter to our politician fellows not to steal and not to accept bribes. 🤪

Oh no, our demographics are totally fucked because of all our bad political decisions. What should we do?

I have a brilliant idea, let’s send out a letter to all 29 year olds, that’ll get them to breed more!

This reminds me of those patronising articles telling young people of my generation that they’re not able to afford housing because they’re not working hard enough and eating avocados on toast, rather than accepting that buying property has been pushed out of reach of people on normal incomes.

I don’t like adopting terms like ‘boomers’ but there’s nothing like the generation who have lecturing the generations who have not as they begin to panic about who’s going to fund their pension pot…

People are feeling that their futures are unstable and that they’ll be doing worse than their parents. They’re being shoved into ever more unstable housing situations and ever longer and harder to climb career ladders that are stretching situations that are tolerable in your early 20s into your 40s.

If people don’t feel they are economically secure, particularly around housing, they’re just going to delay everything about their lives. Patronising letters and pep talks aren’t going to resolve that.

They should include tons of money in that letter.

Lmao, maybe fix the cost of living and the extreme political and economic uncertainty first and maybe people will want to bring children into this world

Will the letter include a copy of Boléro to set the mood?

our rich overlords need more worker units

That should work.

Many governements refuse to treat the real reasons. And they are all very good to do useless action.

What the actual fuck!? 🤦‍♂️

A letter is going to do a lot of good !!

Perhaps start by simply asking men and, especially, women what would encourage them to have children

Surely the way to encourage couples to have more children is to significantly improve the benefits and reduce the costs? Obviously needs careful discussion but perhaps include:

* A minimum of 12 months paid maternity leave for both parents which can be broken into several periods and which parents can chose to take concurrently or consecutively.
* That where practical, parents have a legal right to work from home both during maternity leave and until the youngest child reaches the age of, say, 7.
* A guarantee that parents can return to their previous job at the same level and same pay as before taking leave.
* Employers not allowed to get rid of returning parents for 2 years from when they return.
* Free childcare from, say, 6 months until the child starts school.
* Child Benefit at a decent level – the current rates in the UK are pretty minimal.
* Free schooling, including further and higher education for children.

Of course, most countries in Europe implement many of these at various levels in which case, it needs reviewing.

And, of course, employers will complain and say it’s not possible.

People have no kids because they need to support the overblown pension system with their taxes. Ironically, that very system requires people to have many kids to make it sustainable

Tell the billionaires to give the 29-year-olds their money back, using the legal avenues of taxation available to you already, and maybe they’ll choose to have babies of their own free will.

Meanwhile the 60+ demeographic keeps getting higher pensions at the cost of everyone else’s income.

May be tax billionaires to help younger people ?

I remember all the people with kids some years ago, when the crisis was in its peak, many of them lost job and home, they were told “you should have thought twice before having kids”, “you lived beyond your means”…and so on… many of them survived thanks to grandparents.

So many got the message “you are on your own”.

Is he sending a free book of Titeuf “Le guide du zizi sexuel” ?

Did housing costs decrease?

Did wages stop stagnating?

Did the infrastructure for young families become better?

Did we abandon the fever dream of endless growth?

No? We are still endlessly subsidizing cars, still have a broken pension system that disadvantages working age people, and refuse to adequately tax megacorporations and the ultrarich?

Well, then I’m afraid those letters won’t make any fucking difference.

I’m an Italian living in Belgium. I am fluent in French, a net tax contributor for the past 6 years, university educated. My partner is American – she had high paying jobs, a degree, and substantial investments. We are on our early 30s and want to have not one, but 3 kids and add to rapidly shrinking Belgian and Italian populations.

Unfortunately we’ve been trying to get married for damn near one year now but the bureaucracy is INSANE. Every day we are served with more requirements that were not mentioned before.

This means that we keep having to postpone our decision to have kids, since my partner has not gotten legal residence.

So it’s very easy for politicians to say “have kids” when they build the bureaucratic and professional barriers that force couples that want to have children to postpone their decision.

Many of my friends are in a similar position, wanting to have children already but feeling u safe in their careers and livelihood.

Maybe we should start sending letters to politicians, celebrities and rich people and ask them to stop raping children?