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While the number of people wishing to adopt a child in France is increasing, the number of children available for domestic adoption is in decline, since today most births are planned. For this reason, many families now adopt children from ...

Human reproduction is based on the sexual union of a man and a woman. Nonetheless, scientific research on fertlity (births), fécundity (the ability to give birth) or contraception (birth control) is mainly devoted to women and practically ignores men. Some ...

Life expectancy at birth increased by leaps and bounds in 20th century France, from 45 years in 1900 to 79 years in 2000. For the past thirty years, the gains have been mainly due to mortality improvements among the older ...

France and Ukraine would appear to be very far apart in terms of economics and history. Yet their demographic profiles were very similar for more than fifty years. France Meslé, Gilles Pison and Jacques Vallin investigate the long-term trends at ...

À l'invitation des Nations Unies, la presse a largement célébré le 12 octobre l'arrivée du « six milliardième homme ». Comme celui-ci a dû naître au paléolithique, il y a environ 30 000 ans, il s'agissait en fait de marquer le ...

“French shall be the only language of education”, proclaimed the Ministerial Order of 7 June 1880 laying down the model primary school regulations. “The language of the Republic is French”, recently added article 2 of the Constitution (1992). But do ...

How many people in france are aware that married women are not legally required to take on their husband’s surname ? in fact, the opposite is true: according to the law of August 23, 1794, still in force today, no ...

Only in the last two centuries have human beings started to practice effective family limitation. Methods of contraception and abortion have existed for much longer, but were not a part of everyday life. Etienne van de Walle examines those mentioned ...