Fewer Italians say Si, voglio

Fewer and fewer Italians get a marriage certificate.

According to Italian newspaper La Stampa is a social change going on in the southern European country, so the Catholic Church is losing importance and fewer people still resent unmarried cohabiting couples with children. The birth rate has fallen sharply since the seventies, leaving fewer people in the " marriageable " age between 16 and 24.

The divorce rate in Italy has nearly doubled in the last twenty years.