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...asked Microsoft to fire foreign workers first when layoffs arrive. The Italian Senate approved a bill Thursday that encourages doctors to turn in illegal immigrants who they've treated. Put simply, bad times fuel xenophobia. "History is full of cases of scapegoating triggered by economic crisis," says Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University. "Immigrants make an easy scapegoat: if you can't fight China, you can fight the Chinese at home...
...witnessing the effects of collectively delayed adolescence. The average Italian man is 33 when his first child is born, which means Italy's are the oldest first-time fathers in Europe and thus tend to have smaller families. "Italians take a long time to assume responsibilities," says Francesco Billari, 35, a demographer at Milan's Bocconi University. As a result, everything from leaving home to marrying and having kids to entering politics starts late--which has also delayed the rise of leaders who might push the forward-leaning reforms the country needs...
...large families from food chains and other retailers. The father of 12 says he isn't asking others to pay for his choice: "We simply ask society for the right to have the children we want to have, and to be able to live in decent conditions." Francesco Billari, a professor of demography at Milan's Bocconi University, says large families are the only way to fix Europe's dangerous population slide. In Italy, he says, "even a three-child family is considered completely deviant. That notion has to be avoided; otherwise you can't ever achieve [population] equilibrium...
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