The typical Italian family in popular imagination is, large, warm, multi-generational. If you go there on holiday this seems to be borne out as very often children are welcomed in restaurants and are not seen as a nuisance.
But author and journalist Amanda Craig, who grew up in Italy and has written a new book about a group of families and friends holidaying in Italy, thinks that this particular stereotype is misleading.
In an article penned for the journal Prospect, she asserts that Italians in fact don't prize children as much as we think they do.
Amanda Craig and Mary MacLeod, Chief Executive of the National Family and Parenting Institute join Jenni to discuss. Love In Idleness by Amanda Craig, published by Little Brown; ISBN: 0316724858 Tell us your views/experiences
