In the early 1930, Mussolini urged women to have more children with larger families necessary to support the national good
Church, State and Sex by Benito Mussolini
EDITOR’S NOTE
This article was originally published in a slightly longer version in Liberty Magazine, August 1, 1931.
HUMAN RELATIONS today are beset with all sorts of intricate theories. Many great scientists and philosophers have investigated human behavior and conduct and have proposed the most drastic changes in our social relations. Institutions which have been part of the very structure of civilization for centuries have been attacked as wholly erroneous, and we are daily being presented with new fads and strange palliatives as remedies for real or imagined ills of our present-day civilization. So prevalent has been the showering of ideas for our social relations that they have carried with them numerous offshoots from what has given to life its potential backbone. And in the speculative realm scientists and philosophers have dabbled in numerous schemes and perhaps more than all in that which concerns the social relations of mankind.
Right now, in bad times, the scientists and philosophers have been seriously occupied with economic relations; but whether times are good or bad, there is never lack of discussion of the social conduct of mankind and more especially of the sex conduct. The trend has been to attack the whole institution of Christian marriage and to substitute for it various forms of union with broader liberties and a decrease of those responsibilities which have for centuries and in practically all civilizations been lifelong.
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