The expert meeting on demographics, organized by The Family Watch highlighted the importance of families receiving real support to enable the demographic trend to change.
Despite the red lights that the continued demographic decline suffered by Spanish society throws on issues such as the sustainability of the economic system, the loss of quality of life or the lack of prospects for the youngest people, it does not seem to push administrations, companies and organizations to a paradigm shift that facilitates the full development of family life and a consequent stabilization of the demographic pyramid.
Javier Díaz-Giménez, Professor of Economics at IESE Business School, Jacobo Rey, Director General of Families, Children and Demographic Dynamization of the Xunta de Galicia, and Conrado Giménez, President of the Fundación Madrina were the speakers at the event. "Demographics in Spain and the sustainability of the system."The zoom meeting held yesterday by The Family Watch addressed from different points of view, Academic, Civil Society and Administration, various aspects that affect this issue.
Education, key
In the words of Javier Díaz-Giménezeducation is key to reversing this trend: "the demographic situation in our country will not be solved without a clear commitment to education, which will help to improve the quality of employment and, as a consequence, the sustainability of pensions".
For its part, Jacobo Rey developed the Demographic Impulse Law, an initiative to alleviate the birth rate situation in one of the most depopulated communities in Europe such as Galicia. Rey stressed that "families have to feel the support of the administration from all points of view, reconciliation, employment, family, youth, aging" ... etc.. In this sense, María José Olesti, General Director of The Family Watch noted that "we need to examine why we don't have enough children and what is preventing young people from having children; what are the obstacles in their way and how can we help them overcome them."
Support for mothers
Faced with the difficulties that many families affected by a long-term economic crisis are facing, Conrado GiménezThe president of Fundación Madrina, asked for clear and effective support for mothers in order to "alleviate the maternal and child poverty that is increasingly occurring in our country.
Among the proposals that were discussed at this round table were the '.Flexicurityflexibility in working hours and working space and job security, the co-responsibility and recognize the value of motherhood from the personal, economic, social and political spheres.
