Vecchia Europa
28 Giugno 2008
L’articolo di copertina del New York Times Magazine di questa settimana è dedicato al crollo del tasso di natalità in Europa, in particolare in Italia, Grecia e Spagna. Quali sistemi favoriscono lo sviluppo di famiglie numerose?
The neosocialist Scandinavian system and the laissez-faire American one. Aassve put it to me this way: “You might say that in order to promote fertility, your society needs to be generous or flexible. The U.S. isn’t very generous, but it is flexible. Italy is not generous in terms of social services and it’s not flexible. There is also a social stigma in countries like Italy, where it is seen as less socially accepted for women with children to work. In the U.S., that is very accepted.”
[NYT[
