Working women have less time to have children and care for them
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We have centered our entire lives on the economic. And the economy is stealing our lives. There was no need for statistics to understand that in Italy people no longer have children. Just walk around the streets, especially in a big city, to see more dogs than children, just look at the shelves of a supermarket to realize that those dedicated to animal food and accessories have more space than those for babies' needs. In any case, the very recent Istat survey now certifies it: in Italy the birth rate is 1,34 for woman and goes down to 1,26 if resident foreigners are excluded.
A PROBLEM OF EVERYTHING L’ WEST
But it is not an Italian problem but one for the entire West and for the countries that have fully adopted our development model. In continental Europe only France is slightly higher 0,1 those two children per woman which is the minimum to remain in at least a stable demographic situation. […] All other European countries are well below (Germany 1,41, Spain 1,41, Netherlands 1,72, Swiss 1,42). In the United States the birth rate is 1,84, in Japan 1,27. We are feminine societies but without mothers.
There is no need for statistics even to understand that in the countries, economically, socially, culturally, far from us they give birth more. Just look at the boats that come to us with numerous pregnant women. But let's leave, here too, speak the data: in the Middle East the average rate is 2,5. In Black Africa it is, on average, of the 5. The poorer a population is, the more children it has: in Congo it is 6,7, in Nigeria 5,32 and so on.
Working women don't have time to have children and look after them.
But the same goes for men too. One would have thought that men had lost their traditional virile role (they no longer wage war, they no longer have strong political passions) they would have taken refuge in the family. But no. Nobody, man or woman, wants to give up comforts, to well-being and children take away space for these comforts. Furthermore, people are reluctant to have children if they think they cannot give them the usual opportunities: pool, English courses, piano lessons, dance lessons. Read More