Politics are one thing but you guys need to lay off the Fox News and look at the big picture, it's not about politics it's about the quality of information you are fed.
Frenchies have more babies than for examples the next-door-Germans (and it's not juts the fresh-off-the-boats Arabs and Blacks) and also more working mothers, and daycare facilities and financial support provided and it's long been proven than it's why. Because no women shouldn't have to choose between reproducing and working. It's a sucky choice, and it complicated things, and yeah it deters them from reproducing.
All of the sperging about bringing conservatism back and tacking away women's right to force them to make babies is incel-talk from people who want a government-mandated girlfriend. And also, it would make people more miserable and it's not gonna happen, not point entertaining those thoughts.
DO WE NEED MORE CHILDREN THO?
That's another difference between me and you. For me personally, i want children, but i think humanity overall doesn't need to grow in number, and we are already have more then enough people. The idea than we have a risk of depopulation is frankly ridiculous, as Earth and general and even France in particular has never been as populated as it is today. Humanity will be fine even if we make tremendously less babies.
It may be hard to grasp depending on where you live but population growth brings enormous problem. The chinks were not totally wrong when they implemented their demented one-child policy, the idea was sound, it's just the authoritarian implementation that was wrong, and also their culture is so rotten in other aspects than it made things way worse for women.
Too much humans mean Not enough land, water and space to feed everybody. Human-made materials already overweight the natural world (plants and animals). We are running towards a nightmarish soylant-freen-like future if we can't downsize our impact. Downsizing our population is just one of many ways to achieve that goal eventually. And we cant' just kill people, making less of them is preferable.
The Earth is finite and now we are not going to space anytime soon, colonizing other planets is a very distant dream, technically and financially, it's not sustainable and every-single person on Earth currently living will be dead and long forgotten before and if that happens.
But what about the old people and their retirement? No one will get retirement if we are all fighting for the last arable lands. There's a lot of secret billions laying around, Panama papers, PAndora papers... Just grab that money and have robots care for the olds,