"Poverty, feminine noun, singular. Errata corrige. Poverty, feminine noun, plural." The 2015 Caritas Report about poverty in Italy starts like this. In recent years a dramatic increase of Italian and foreign workers has been measured, who have used up any type of social safety net, including the family network. That is totally new for Italy. The State, forced by the European spending review, cuts the social services and delegates to the family, which, at the mercy of the crisis and unsupported, is no longer able to support the weakest links within it. Who thought that modern economic growth and the spread of knowledge could change the deep structures of the capital and ineguality must think again.