ROME: Starting a family in Italy is becoming a 'titanic effort' that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis said on Friday (May 12), warning that 'savage' free-market conditions were preventing the young from having children. Births in Italy dropped below 400,000 in 2022 for the first time, registering a 1
ROME: Starting a family in Italy is becoming a"titanic effort" that only the rich can afford, Pope Francis said on Friday , warning that"savage" free-market conditions were preventing the young from having children.
Speaking at a conference on the growing demographic crisis, Pope Francis said the declining birthrate signalled a lack of hope in the future, with younger generations weighed down by a sense of uncertainty, fragility and precariousness. "The free market, without the necessary corrective measures, becomes savage and produces increasingly serious situations and inequalities," he added.The pope said pets were replacing children in some households and recounted how a woman at a recent audience had opened her bag and asked for a papal blessing for"her baby", only to reveal that it was a dog.
between their career and motherhood. Given the high costs involved in raising children, people were revising their priorities, he added.
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