Italy’s birth rate, already one of the lowest in the world, has been falling steadily for about 15 years and reached a record low last year.
Pope Francis is stepping up his campaign to urge Italians to have children, calling for long-term policies to help families and warning that the country’s demographic crisis was threatening the future.
“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.
“Without children and young people, a country loses its desire for the future.”
Without a future or desire to live, why would we have kids? Why are we listening to an 80 year old male virgin in a dress who represents a fairy tale and participated in covering up the rapes of children around the world?
Because someone is going to have to work for you pension.
What is a pension? /s
But also, no. No one should be forced to endure this world just to keep pensions going.
What pension? Companies don’t offer pensions anymore. And the govt wants to steal whats left and give it to the oil companies.