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Population Transition in Italy
- 1996 ----- color ----- 27 min ----- vhs
- (Human Geography: People, Places and Change series, Part 6) Something unexpected has happened in Italy. Although the country is the spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church, which opposes artificial means of contraception, the country has the fastest and most extreme decline in fertility ever recorded. The fertility rate is now far below the replacement level of just over two births per woman. Some have attributed the decline to consumer materialism that allows parents to "have it all" by making the one-child family the norm. Others claim it is the result of Italy's underdeveloped welfare system. Whatever the cause, the consequence for Italy is a rapidly aging population with a smaller base of young people to support it.
- Topics: (Anthropology: Cultural, Europe, Family Life, Geography)
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