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Notes on Progress: The value of family

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Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. You can opt out of Notes here. Italy’s birth rate has declined every year since 2008, but the pandemic pushed it into a precipitous nose dive. In 2020 alone, Italy’s population fell by 384,000: equivalent to the population of Florence evaporating into thin air. In May of this year, at a special assembly called to discuss the collapsing fertility rate, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni blamed a lack of traditional family values for her nation’s baby bust. Sharing a stage with Pope Francis himself, Meloni revealed where she believes the solution lies, calling for a “return to a country in which being fathers and mothers is a socially recognized value and not a private matter”. With no European nation at a replacement rate, Italy is not alone, and similar rhetoric is deployed by a range of politicians, from the UK’s Miriam Cates MP to Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, Their key assertio

Notes on Progress The value of family Traditional values don't deliver babies Works in Progress and Boom Sep 18, 2023 70 2 Share Notes on Progress are pieces that are a bit too short to run on Works in Progress. You can opt out of Notes here . Italy’s birth rate has declined every year since 2008, but the pandemic pushed it into a precipitous nose dive. In 2020 alone, Italy’s population fell by 384,000: equivalent to the population of Florence evaporating into thin air. In May of this year, at a special assembly called to discuss the collapsing fertility rate, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Me

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