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.