Most continue to call themselves Catholic and are likely to be married and buried in the Church, but that s possibly going to be the extent of it. Hatched, matched and dispatched. S pain s birth rate is one of the lowest in Europe, lower than its mortality rate. A common feeling here is that it is very expensive to raise even one child. The feminist movement is strong.
Women outnumber men at the universities.
Competition for jobs is intense. Cell phones are everywhere. Since the dictator Franco died in 1975, Spain leaped into the 21st century. Jaime, our guide in Seville, noted with a hint of bittersweet sarcasm that Spain s former colonial possessions are no more. Their golden age is past.