The current administration’s schemes to persuade women to have more children — which include “baby bonuses” — put me in mind of Benito Mussolini’s so-called Battle for Births.
The Mussolini scheme is referenced in the (extraordinary) movie A Special Day (dir. Ettore Scola, 1977), in which a fascist husband (John Vernon) wants to impregnate his wife (Sophia Loren) so that they can have a seventh child and be exempt from taxation. The child (if there is to be one) is to be called Adolfo.
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Battles for births
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