Despite the economic crisis, the high unemployment rate and a lack of faith in the future, the desire for motherhood of French women did not decrease. Actually, contrary to all expectations, it continues growing. The fertility indicator for 2010 in France reached 2.00 children for every woman, a level that is comparable only to the baby boom years of the 1960s. According to the l’Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED), the French fertility rate has been rising steadily in the last forty years and it did not even weaken during the recent downturn. The fertility rate of women over 30, who already have at least a child, increased above all.
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