AND imminent, from December 30th, the inclusion in the Lea, the essential levels of assistance, of assisted reproduction treatments. The Regions will have to equip themselves to guarantee six attempts to couples who turn to public centers for services.
How many will do it? Many are convinced that the demographic winter depends on the fact that young people “don’t want children” and that no matter how new tools are introduced, giving up on having them prevails. Try to explain what having one or more children actually means for women I became a mother, 25 stories, collected by Alinsieme social cooperative, which in Vicenza offers families scholastic and recreational support.
Fertilization and motherhood, the story of Italian women
Some extra benefits in the salary of working mothers with two or more children. (Getty Images)
The narratives, elaborated according to the criteria of narrative medicine, report the experience of women very close to the Italian average: first child, and in 50 percent of cases only child, after the age of 32. The message that emerges is clear, motherhood divides life into before and after: for 45 percent of women, before, existence was centered on oneself, and revolved around “doing a lot of things”.
Now the 24 hours are marked by the children and completing “everything I set myself to do”; the work from “realization” becomes an “obligation” for the maintenance of the family. To make it, we depend on external help, which is often impossible to obtain. And the fathers? They are explicitly mentioned as active partners of the new routine in only 16 percent of the stories.
Yet, the new tiring life is “enriching” for everyone. So much so that many regret not having the strength to have another child, as they would like.
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