I'm British, married to a Spaniard. The way my parents were able to keep mentally active after retirement - including being part of U3A - is in stark contrast t

I'm British, married to a Spaniard. The way my parents were able to keep mentally active after retirement - including being part of U3A - is in stark contrast to the way my parents-in-law have been casting around for things to do after retirement in Spain. My wife thinks that so much of society had been controlled by the Catholic church until Franco's death in 1975 that it's taking a while to catch up with more secular things like this. My mother-in-law would like to work with children, but the vast majority of social services involving children also involves the church, which she wants no part of. Of course they could start something like a local U3A branch themselves, but not everyone's that kind of person.