No Children. It Makes Sense!

'Kids are great. It's a unique process that everyone should experience.' Except that today, 1 in 20 French people refuse to have children. What are the reasons for this 'voluntary infertility?'Do we really know why we have children? Isn t having children an obstacle to personal and professional development? In an overpopulated and polluted world, isn t it selfish to take up too much space by having a family? Don t children cost too much to individuals and to society?The author investigates with dozens of women and men for whom the duty to procreate rings hollow. Among these non-parents are exclusive lovers, artists, careerists, religious people, traumatized children, eternal teenagers, environmentalists, convinced Malthusians, as well as feminist activists who have made their refusal to give birth a standard, in order to assert themselves in a society that praises all mothers and family values. Nathalie Six has been a journalist for eight years and has written for the magazines Femmes, Nouvel Obs, Figaro and Figaro, L Orient litteraire, and Livres Hebdo, among others.