Twin Oddities

[aoakley]

Here's an odd thing. Being reminded of how odd twins are. That reminder, in itself, is odd

Comments

[liz_lowlife]

How odd and not something most of the rest of us would even notice although I do recall that the French have smaller families in general.

[girfan]

Considering how close Normandy is to the UK, and the amount of UK tourists go there, I'm surprised that they don't have the facilities set up for twins.

[inulro]

As I understand it, access to health care for the French is never a problem, insurance covers pretty much everything, and they have one of the highest percentage GDP spending on health care (I think second to the US) in the world.

They also have a low birth rate, especially considering that maternity benefits, family leave, access to child care etc are on a par with the Scandinavian model.

I therefore suspect that the reason France isn't full of fertility-treatment twins is that French women (and men) have simply opted not to have them.