Censis, for 67% of employed people the priority is to work less. Resignations are increasing in the first year of a child's life.

Parents' resignation from work involved over 61,000 people in Italy in 2022. The professional cost of children for mothers remains higher in Italy than in other large European countries, according to the Censis-Eudaimon report. In 2022, resignations and consensual terminations from work relating to parents with children up to one year of age involved 44.7 thousand mothers and 16.7000 fathers.