Summary: Why is the Italian birth rate plummeting? The first of three programmes on the crisis of the Italian family. Laurie travels to Milan to unpick the tangled interactions between the individual, the family, the church and the state. He talks to sociologists Pierpaolo Donati, Carmen Leccardi, Chiara Saraceno, Monsignor Carlos Simón Vázquez and Letizia Chiappini a student at the University of Milan-Bicocca.
