61 percent of a recent Gallup International poll anticipated more economic hardship for France in 2011, even more than twice the global average, however the birth rate of France is continuing to increase even higher than the birth rate of 2000, a boom year. From recent researches, French women are having children at a rate (2.01 each), which is even higher than the European average (1.6 in 2009).
There are many theories about the increase of the birth rate, however i was mostly interested at this one-
Another theory is that the bounty of babes is less an exception to the mood than an expression of it, a withdrawal from the gloomy big picture that public policy affords, in a culture that highly values children. Or as Le Monde summed up the sentiment, with melancholy Gallic flair, “Let’s make babies to forget this world of brutes and money.”
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