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Interesting thoughts:
The leaders of Europe’s four biggest economies have zero biological children among them.

Theresa May, UK, no children (unable to have them)
Angela Merkel, Germany, no biological children
Emmanuel Maricon, France, no biological children
Paolo Gentiloni, Italy, no children

“One can’t help but wonder what Trogneux’s ex-husband must make of the double freak occurrence of losing his wife to a teen-ager, only to have him turn out, decades later, to be the… Président de la République.”
“Her elder daughter, Laurence, was in Macron’s class…. [W]hen Macron’s parents heard about the affair, they initially thought their son was seeing Laurence. ‘You don’t understand, you already have your life,’ Macron’s mother reportedly told a tearful Trogneux, who refused to promise to break off the affair. ‘He won’t have children!’ He has no biological children…. [Now that] he is elected, the leaders of France, Germany, and the U.K. will have zero biological children among them. (Angela Merkel has two stepsons; Theresa May and her husband of thirty-six years were unable to have children. May spoke about the pain of that realization after a political rival suggested that she had more of a stake in the future than May by virtue of being a mother.)”

From “Emmanuel Macron and the Modern Family,” by Lauren Collins (in The New Yorker).