The country full of cots here welfare is not a dream
The average number of children is 1.61 and exceeds even that of the EU. Rich regions such as Trentino and Emilia again the birth rate, with the help of immigrant women. Companies are modeled on women with more flexible hours and leave
BOLZANO - There is a piece of Italy where children continue to be born. Where cots are full and not empty. Where the rate of population exceeds the European average, and where being "family" rather than an extraordinary event seems to have become the norm.
We are in Bolzano, Alto Adige, the autonomous province and gateway to the Dolomites, climbing the country according to statistics Istat, in a region where the zero growth seems remote, and the average number of children per woman, 1.61, distance and not just the national average of 1.42 stops, and that of the EU, where the fertility rate is 1.52 children per mother. We must come to understand this Italy reversed, where the South historically "rich" children and today the population falling free, has replaced this part of North East, vineyards, mountains and rows of apples, in which companies try to be family-friendly, to reconcile work and family, the crisis is there but you see a little 'less and hospitals have a positive record of natural births.
0 to 3 years children can count on a network of kindergartens, day nurseries and micro-tagesmutter (day-care at home), families receive support from state, regional and provincial subsidies and free travel silent, companies allow part-time, telecommuting. And so as to Trento to Bolzano, capital of the Italian population, the children continue to be born, "supported by a welfare system in trouble but still strong," said Eugenio Bizzotto, the Department for the Family of the Province of Bolzano, although dell'Astat bulletins, the local institute of statistics, remember that some years ago was even better.
The cuts are even here. But municipal kindergarten "Jiminy Cricket", wood and glass structure surrounded by fields and mountains on the outskirts of Bolzano, in the heat of siesta time, the world of children seems to be protected by a filter of serenity and healing. The youngest is 5 months, the biggest three years, the rooms are in the shade, sun filled, in the silence you can hear their breathing regular. Around open spaces, colors, large portholes because the walls are not ruptures of the gaze, is the angle art, the room where she is barefoot to find out the difference between things, like a mountain of grainy polenta flour or a sack full of items. Upstairs there is a place of disguises, the bathrooms have tubs for water games, and an elevator leading to the gym with the theater.
"Here we only use cloth diapers and organic foods - says Roberta Passoni, coordinator of the nest - it can seat up to 42 children. To achieve the asylum we have long worked with the architects, because everything could respect and encourage creativity in children, and be a friendly place for parents that children may leave here until 15.30 pm, while other nests are open until 18. Moreover, the nest needs to reconcile family and work, and we try to make the gap between the house and the "outside" the lightest possible. "
is rich regions such as Trentino Alto Adige Emilia Romagna or the birth rate is distributed in Italy, albeit with the support of reasonable immigration. "It is mainly women over 35 - says the report on the birth dell'Astat Alto Adige - and especially those of Italian nationality, had provided the largest contribution to the local recovery of fertility, with a 80 percent % of Italian birth, and 20% due to immigrant women. Confirmation Alessandro Rosina Professor of Demography at the Catholic University of Milan: "The welfare of positive examples prove this: more services and more employment for women leads to increased birth rate, creating the famous family-friendly environment that gives confidence and optimism for couples and forces them to do even more of a child. In Italy, however, the happy isles are still very few. "
And to find an example of "virtuous", even with the certificate "Method Audit, evaluation system that rewards the German workplace strategies that apply to conciliation, you have to climb in Postal, Bolzano, between nature and silence. The company is the Dr Schar, a leading European manufacturer of gluten-free foods, cakes, biscuits, bread, pasta, and reaching it is the smell of fresh bread that you hear throughout the valley. Inside it's like entering a spaceship with very high technology, where each "piece" is mixed and baked according to strict scientific criteria. A young, fast growing, 189 employees of which 91 are women.
"The very high proportion of women in our company has led us to implement measures such as flexible hours, telecommuting, part-time, the extension of six months of maternity leave - said Spechtenhauser Herbert, director of human resources - and still not having a nursery business to pay a worker 30% of the cost of a tagesmutter. Often the fathers of neo-leave benefit paternity, and all this has turned into a relationship with employees and high retention in a very low use of illness. "
working moms and baby cots are full. In 2009 in the province of Bolzano, 5,232 children were born, in 1700 in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, led by Professor Sergio Messina. "We have structured the delivery room as if they were the rooms of the house, the labor can be done in the water, so many lights on the ceiling reminiscent of a starry sky, while aromas, massage and music make this step lighter, less painful.
Women are free to choose the position you prefer to give birth, each has a midwife to herself, that follows after, home - says Sergio Messina - but we can organize a Caesarean section in 5 minutes and we have a department for advanced neonatal disease. This revival of "natural" despite the total medical safety, has led us to have the lowest number of cesarean deliveries in Italy, about 20% against 35% of the national average. Having children of the rest is normal, but today has become a rare and extraordinary event .... "
http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/10/16/news/culle_bolzano-8109036/
BOLZANO - There is a piece of Italy where children continue to be born. Where cots are full and not empty. Where the rate of population exceeds the European average, and where being "family" rather than an extraordinary event seems to have become the norm.
We are in Bolzano, Alto Adige, the autonomous province and gateway to the Dolomites, climbing the country according to statistics Istat, in a region where the zero growth seems remote, and the average number of children per woman, 1.61, distance and not just the national average of 1.42 stops, and that of the EU, where the fertility rate is 1.52 children per mother. We must come to understand this Italy reversed, where the South historically "rich" children and today the population falling free, has replaced this part of North East, vineyards, mountains and rows of apples, in which companies try to be family-friendly, to reconcile work and family, the crisis is there but you see a little 'less and hospitals have a positive record of natural births.
0 to 3 years children can count on a network of kindergartens, day nurseries and micro-tagesmutter (day-care at home), families receive support from state, regional and provincial subsidies and free travel silent, companies allow part-time, telecommuting. And so as to Trento to Bolzano, capital of the Italian population, the children continue to be born, "supported by a welfare system in trouble but still strong," said Eugenio Bizzotto, the Department for the Family of the Province of Bolzano, although dell'Astat bulletins, the local institute of statistics, remember that some years ago was even better.
The cuts are even here. But municipal kindergarten "Jiminy Cricket", wood and glass structure surrounded by fields and mountains on the outskirts of Bolzano, in the heat of siesta time, the world of children seems to be protected by a filter of serenity and healing. The youngest is 5 months, the biggest three years, the rooms are in the shade, sun filled, in the silence you can hear their breathing regular. Around open spaces, colors, large portholes because the walls are not ruptures of the gaze, is the angle art, the room where she is barefoot to find out the difference between things, like a mountain of grainy polenta flour or a sack full of items. Upstairs there is a place of disguises, the bathrooms have tubs for water games, and an elevator leading to the gym with the theater.
"Here we only use cloth diapers and organic foods - says Roberta Passoni, coordinator of the nest - it can seat up to 42 children. To achieve the asylum we have long worked with the architects, because everything could respect and encourage creativity in children, and be a friendly place for parents that children may leave here until 15.30 pm, while other nests are open until 18. Moreover, the nest needs to reconcile family and work, and we try to make the gap between the house and the "outside" the lightest possible. "
is rich regions such as Trentino Alto Adige Emilia Romagna or the birth rate is distributed in Italy, albeit with the support of reasonable immigration. "It is mainly women over 35 - says the report on the birth dell'Astat Alto Adige - and especially those of Italian nationality, had provided the largest contribution to the local recovery of fertility, with a 80 percent % of Italian birth, and 20% due to immigrant women. Confirmation Alessandro Rosina Professor of Demography at the Catholic University of Milan: "The welfare of positive examples prove this: more services and more employment for women leads to increased birth rate, creating the famous family-friendly environment that gives confidence and optimism for couples and forces them to do even more of a child. In Italy, however, the happy isles are still very few. "
And to find an example of "virtuous", even with the certificate "Method Audit, evaluation system that rewards the German workplace strategies that apply to conciliation, you have to climb in Postal, Bolzano, between nature and silence. The company is the Dr Schar, a leading European manufacturer of gluten-free foods, cakes, biscuits, bread, pasta, and reaching it is the smell of fresh bread that you hear throughout the valley. Inside it's like entering a spaceship with very high technology, where each "piece" is mixed and baked according to strict scientific criteria. A young, fast growing, 189 employees of which 91 are women.
"The very high proportion of women in our company has led us to implement measures such as flexible hours, telecommuting, part-time, the extension of six months of maternity leave - said Spechtenhauser Herbert, director of human resources - and still not having a nursery business to pay a worker 30% of the cost of a tagesmutter. Often the fathers of neo-leave benefit paternity, and all this has turned into a relationship with employees and high retention in a very low use of illness. "
working moms and baby cots are full. In 2009 in the province of Bolzano, 5,232 children were born, in 1700 in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, led by Professor Sergio Messina. "We have structured the delivery room as if they were the rooms of the house, the labor can be done in the water, so many lights on the ceiling reminiscent of a starry sky, while aromas, massage and music make this step lighter, less painful.
Women are free to choose the position you prefer to give birth, each has a midwife to herself, that follows after, home - says Sergio Messina - but we can organize a Caesarean section in 5 minutes and we have a department for advanced neonatal disease. This revival of "natural" despite the total medical safety, has led us to have the lowest number of cesarean deliveries in Italy, about 20% against 35% of the national average. Having children of the rest is normal, but today has become a rare and extraordinary event .... "
http://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2010/10/16/news/culle_bolzano-8109036/
