Family is still very, very, very much alive in Italy.
On what do you base your assertion, since the article and many others like it point out that the birth rate has fallen below the replacement level. Italy has been beset by the same Marxist b.s. we have to put up with here, from feminists and environmentalists to homosexualists, securlarists and islamists, constantly suing the government on behalf of their obsessions. Stick a fork in Italy.
There’s another theory about family in Italy. It’s said that Italian gregariousness was due to their large families. In other words, an Italian is not used to being alone and does not like to be alone.
Mussolini cleverly exploited this personal quality with his mass rallies and choreographed cheering (”Duce! Duce!”) long before Hitler copied the same technique. People were made to feel part of something huge and experienced a certain `togetherness’ at the same time.
Fractiousness in Italian politics is more based on regional and economic rivalries, in my estimation. What is definitely changing is the Italian family. Their birth rate is declining like the rest of western Europe, among a people who were said to cherish their children like no other.
Considering that Italy has a birth ratevbelow replacement level, the only “family values” I still see there are middle aged men mooching off their parents for housing and food.