In the last 20 years, the desire to have children has fallen sharply in France, according to a study published by the French Institute for Demographic Studies last week – and the country's birth rate is at its lowest since the end of the Second World War.
"People now prefer smaller families, and fertility will probably continue to fall," Milan Bouchet-Valat, a sociologist and co-author of the study, told French news agency AFP.
