A senior figure in the centre-left
opposition Democratic Party (PD) said Tuesday he will file a
bill for children in Italy to only take their mother's surname
when they are registered at birth.
Former PD leader and Senator Dario Franceschini, Italy's longest
serving culture minister, said this would right a historic
wrong.
"Children should only have their mother's surname", Franceschini
said at a PD s assembly which was discussing proposed bills on
double surnames. "Instead of creating endless problems with the
management of double surnames or with the choice between the
father's and the mother's, after centuries in which children
have taken their father's surname, we must establish that from
the new law they will only take their mother's surname," he
said.
"It is a simple thing and also compensation for a centuries-old
injustice that has had not only a symbolic value, but has been
one of the cultural and social sources of gender inequality".
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