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Parents are rarely asked to justify having children. However, people who don’t have children still have to justify themselves. Are mentalities changing about this choice, in France and in the world ? This is slowly changing according to experts in the field, but there is no figures to confirm. The great majority of people that expressed themselves on this subject was women, as they are the ones being under cultural pressure to have children.

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Do you have children? And if so, aren't you ashamed? Or rather, do you think you made a moral error in giving them life? Or conversely, do you think your parents made a moral error in giving you life? A strange question, isn't it? Most people, including myself, would answer no to this question without too much hesitation, but philosopher David Benatar begs to differ.

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