Nearly a third of women of childbearing age don't want children, poll finds

A third of women of childbearing age do not want to have children.

This is revealed by a survey carried out by

magazine in partnership with Ifop and published on Wednesday.

The survey was conducted among a representative sample of 2005 women aged 15 and over.

Regarding women

these are women aged 18 to 49 without children and physically capable of procreating.

A non-desire for children driven by feminist and ecological considerations

Among the respondents who do not feel a desire for motherhood, 50% believe that a child is not essential to their personal development when 48% do not wish to assume parental responsibility.

The environmental and climate crisis also motivates the non-desire for children of 39% of the women questioned, followed by political and social crises (37%) and the fear of overpopulation (35%), details

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The Ifop institute also questioned respondents about their political ideas.

48% of EELV sympathizers said they wanted to remain childless, unlike those of the Republicans, Reconquest or RN who still mostly express a desire for motherhood.

50% of women deeming themselves

and 54% declaring themselves

also affirmed their non-desire for children.

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The socio-professional category of those surveyed is also a criterion since 36% of female business leaders prefer not to have children when the majority of women from working-class categories mostly express their desire to become mothers.

The survey also notes that more than half of the mothers of a child under three years old sometimes admit to regretting their choice of motherhood.

In addition, nearly one in two women say they are ready to resort to medically assisted procreation (PMA) as a single person.

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