There are many reasons for the demographic decline in Italy. Insufficient economic support, irreconcilability between work and family (often a purely female problem), international political instability, uncertainty about the future. However, there are those who speak of a cultural problem, such as the Minister for Equal Opportunities Eugenia Maria Roccella, and those who believe that the problem is also another. Daniele Novara, founder and director of the Psycho-Pedagogical Center for Education and Conflict Management (CPP), added a socio-cultural component to these causes: ''the educational fragility of parents.'' "Being a parent," he says, "has become difficult, and not just because of economic problems. It has become so because a fragile parent struggles to educate a child. In Italy, one in four women has no children. People prefer to buy a dog. This phenomenon occurred with the transition from the society of belonging, in which having children was a societal matter and children belonged to everyone and everyone helped you, to a narcissistic society that in the nineties – due to a series of historical delays – the mentality spread that the child is exclusively and privately owned".
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