Pope Francis said this Friday at a conference on the growing demographic crisis that only the rich can support a family in Italy and that pets are replacing children.
“The difficulty of finding a stable job, the difficulty of keeping one, expensive houses, very high rents and insufficient wages are the real problems,” Pope Francis said along with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
According to the agency ReutersThe supreme pontiff assured that the declining birth rate signals a lack of hope for the future, and young generations are filled with a sense of insecurity, fragility and insecurity.
The pope also added that pets are replacing children in some homes and told how a woman, during a recent audience, opened her suitcase and asked for a papal blessing for “her child,” which turned out to be a dog.
“I lost my patience and scolded her, saying: many children are hungry, and you bring me a dog,” he said.
Population decline is a major concern for the eurozone’s third-largest country, according to the same source, with the economy minister warning this week of the risk of Italy’s GDP falling by 18 percentage points over the next two decades if current fertility trends continue.
The education minister said on Thursday that current demographic data suggests that the number of Italian schoolchildren is expected to fall by one million over the next 10 years.
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