The Media is all a buzz about it.
A baby boom for the French, France has the second highest birthrate and will have the largest population in Europe by 2050.
So is Mark Steyn totally off base?
Newsweek asks "what can Europe learn from 'exception Francaise.' "
Europe can learn about "generous parental leave,""fewer hours,""more job security, free day care and medical coverage", it can learn about all these things, but it want learn anything about the ethnicity of those having babies. The French out of either high mindedness or naivety don't keep records on such things. So the exact percentage of those 75 million French that are expected by 2050 to actually consider themselves French as opposed to let's say subjects of the Caliphate.
According to "Gerard-Francois Dumont, Sorbonne professor and editor in chief of Population & Future magazine: "Every time I am at a conference, people want to know what is going on in France."
That's a pretty good question.
And Steyn has already thought of it.
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