GUARDIAN  |  Opinion

France’s letters to 29-year-olds to remind them to have babies is a spectacular missing of the point

法国向29岁年轻人发送的催促生育信件彻底误解了问题所在

‘How would I feel if my government wrote to me, reminding me to have children?’

‘How would I feel if my government wrote to me, reminding me to have children?’

2026-02-09  746  中等
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All that being said, the pressure on women is unlike that on men, for reasons that stretch into the thousands before you even get to “which one of them has to give birth?”. The age of 29 was presumably chosen symbolically, to flag that 30 is just around the corner, and that’s when you’re supposed to worry about your fertility. It’s an exceedingly cautious cut-off point, and a heavily gendered one, by which I mean, when did you last hear anyone say, “tick tock, tick tock” to a man on the occasion of his 30th birthday?

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