According to a survey conducted in July 2023 in France, more than one third of French people without children, aged between 25 and 43, believed the ideal number of children a family should have was two, 20 percent thought the ideal number was just one, and only three percent believed it was ideal to have four or more children. On the other hand for 32 percent of those surveyed, it was ideal forĀ a family to have no children at all. In 2020, 38.6 percent of French families had two children.
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UNAF. (January 11, 2024). What is the ideal number of children for a family to have? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1359563/ideal-number-children-family-france/
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