In a perfect future, the price for staying youthful means banishing the young

It's the year 2140 and Longevity drugs have all but eradicated old age. That means Anna should never have been born. Nor should any of the children at Grange Hall. The facility is full of boys and girls whose parents chose to have kids despite a Declaration forcing people to opt in, or opt out. Anna's parents opted in-but they also had her. And that makes Anna a surplus. Then one day a boy named Peter arrives, bringing with him news of the world outside, a place where people are starting to say that maybe people shouldn't live forever. Peter begs Anna to escape with him, but Anna's not sure who to trust: the strange boy whose version of life sounds like a dangerous fairy tale, or the familiar walls of Grange Hall and the head mistress who has controlled her every waking thought? Chilling, poignant, and endlessly thought-provoking, The Declaration will have readers agonizing over Anna's fate until the very last page.
The Declaration Questions
The chance to live forever comes with a price.
Would you Ë Opt in? Ë Opt out?
The Declaration Gemma Malley
Would you sign a Declaration agreeing to opt out of ever having children if it meant you could live forever?
THINK ABOUT IT!
1) What would it be like to live forever, or even just a few hundred years extra? What would the impact be on the world, on society, on the way we live our lives?
2) Why are people who have "opted out" of the Declaration and had children ostracized from society? What are the implications of the question: "Who would die just to have a child, when you didn't even know if the child would be any good?"
3) Is it selfish to break the Declaration and want both Longevity and children? What sort of responsibility does humanity have to Mother Nature? What sort of responsibility does humanity have to itself?
4) What kind of things do children bring to society? What do you think the world would lose if there were no more young people?
5) Why are children b