ROME– Angela Di Iorio wanted to be pregnant with her very first child by now. Instead, the 36- year-old Italian, who simply delayed her wedding event for a 2nd time, is beginning to wonder whether she needs to have a child at all.
” Our plan was always to get married and then to start a household,” stated Ms. Di Iorio, an osteopath from Rome whose fiance has actually been out of work for nearly a year, ever considering that a fitness center they co-own was forced to close due to the fact that of procedures to stop the spread of Covid-19
A year into the pandemic, early information and surveys point to a child bust in many advanced economies from the U.S. to Europe to East Asia, often on top of existing down patterns in births
A combination of health and recessions is triggering many people to postpone or abandon plans to have children. Demographers caution the dip is unlikely to be temporary, especially if the pandemic and its financial consequences drag out.
” All evidence points to a sharp decrease in fertility rates and in the number of births across extremely developed nations,” said Tomas Sobotka, a researcher at the Wittgenstein Center for Demography and Global Human Capital in Vienna. “The longer this duration of unpredictability lasts, the more it will have lifelong results on the fertility rate.”
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