https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Six out of ten babies in France are born to parents outside of wedlock - the highest rate in the European Union – a Eurostat study has found. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180810/france-tops-eu-table-for-births-outside-marriage Fri, 10 Aug 2018 14:41:19 +0200 france-tops-eu-table-for-births-outside-marriage One in 20 babies born in France in 2015 was born to a mother aged over 40, while the country's overall birthrate has seen a decline, a study on fertility shows. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160930/france-sees-more-women-over-40-giving-birth Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:03:09 +0200 france-sees-more-women-over-40-giving-birth France's population broke the 66 million mark at the start of 2014, but its women are having fewer children, new figures revealed. Is it the fault of a bad economy and should French leaders be worried? https://www.thelocal.fr/20140115/birth-rate-drops-in-france-women Wed, 15 Jan 2014 13:42:00 +0100 birth-rate-drops-in-france-women The quality of French men's sperm declined between 1989 and 2005, with the average sperm count down b y nearly a third, a new study on Wednesday showed. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121205/french-men-men-suffer-sperm-count-decline Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:54:00 +0100 french-men-men-suffer-sperm-count-decline