Subsequently, in some cases, a child or a second child is placed as an alternative to having these things. And therefore some couples decide to have a vacation to the islands and postpone having a child to the next year. But the following year something else happens and they postpone again. It's a fact that couples who have one child or two children are economically penalized when compared to a couple without children. Being childless has an economic advantage.
Babies are expensive and there is no social help for couples with children.
For example, let's compare a couple without children to a couple with children. The couple without children is living at a level of life of 100, and the couple who has one or 2 children is living at a level of life of 60. Many couples are not willing to take that kind of reduction in their lifestyle. The same thing on the reverse is happening with the Italian population. As time goes by and women become ready to be mothers there are going to be so few of them that even if by a miracle their fertility should increase, there will still be a strong decrease in the Italian population for future decades.