Lavinia Mennuni does not move an inch away from her position on the issue of motherhood. “Your first aspiration should be to be a mother,” the Fratelli d’Italia senator told La7, sparking criticism from the left. But the opposition’s attack does not affect Giorgia Meloni’s party representative, who in an interview with Messaggero reiterates her thoughts: “The problem is not just supporting financially those who bring a child into the world, but facing the most important and profound cultural problem . Being a mother is a beautiful mission and an achievement of nature itself, without this having to impede the legitimate professional aspirations that every woman should be able to cultivate or other choices made freely in the name of other equally noble missions. Being a mother is the most beautiful thing in the world for me.”
The decline in the birth rate affects many countries, including Italy, but certainly for Mennuni becoming a father “does not conflict with other aspirations and involves both parents. We must make today’s girls understand that they can cultivate the dream of being workers, succeed in the field they choose and become the mothers of tomorrow. I believe that there must be seriousness and common intentions in these issues and there must not be any political controversy, especially in the emergency phase that we are experiencing with the lowest birth rate in Italian history. Those who have no arguments take refuge in clichés and the truth is that those who governed before us did nothing on the issues of birth and childhood and today they are bothered not only by the concrete measures implemented by the Meloni government on these issues”.
The economic issue cannot be such a factor of discrimination for the IDE senator: “We have had moments of serious crises, such as world wars, and yet there were children. Today, however, boys and girls are focused on the present, there is no planning, also due to the precariousness we live in, they think about the here and now and, instead, it is important that in addition to aspiring to a personal and work affirmation, they focus on the topic of birth rate. Children – the final message – can aspire to be workers and parents. I would say to those who accuse me: stop talking and work to support our young people, revive the birth rate and breathe new life into our future.”
Source: IL Tempo
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