The last of Senator Dario Franceschini: "The paternal surname is a patriarchal tradition"

If we want a thought so to speak "left", You have to go back to the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, open an encyclical written by Paolo VI in 1967 entitled Development of Peoples, Read it carefully and learn what should really be the progress of peoples based on the common human and Christian sense, not on blind ideology.

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Author:
Jorge Facio Lynx
President of Editions The island of Patmos

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The bill of Senator Dario Franceschini which provides for the possibility of automatically attributing the maternal surname to infants has generated a heated public debate, With conflicting voices and comments. Proposed by him defined as

«Compensation for a secular injustice that has had not only a symbolic value, But it was one of the cultural and social sources of gender inequalities " (cf.. WHO)

The supporters of the proposal they see it as a necessary legislative and social adaptation that follows the constitutive changes of families, so that there is greater gender equality and the custom of the paternal surname is eliminated, considered "patriarchal tradition". In this way a greater role would be given to the mothers at a social level, With greater freedom of choice of the surname to be transmitted to the children by the parents, promoting a more balanced and real vision of the wider family concept compared to that considered too restrictive of the so -called "non -traditional family". The proposal does not exclude the possibility for parents to jointly choose the surname, including the double surname option.

Critics of the proposal argue that it risks creating confusion on family identity, influence the perception of the relationship with the parents and the related daughter, producing divisions within families in case of disagreement between the parents for the choice of the surname.

For jurists and experts There are undeniable problems on the proposal regarding the bureaucratic complexity that could derive from the application of the law, such as difficulties in managing documents and administrative practices. In this regard, the Supreme Constitutional Court has already given indications for the overcoming of the purely paternal surname, in which the cases and cases to which the proposal is targeted can return.

It is difficult to predict precisely how many infants would receive the maternal surname following the approval of the law, without specific data on parents' preferences, Any calculation would be approximate but still indicative. Analyzing some data of the National Statistics Authority (cf.. WHO), It is clear that:

– The born in Italy is constantly decreasing, In the 2023, The born residents in Italy were 379.000, marking a new historical minimum with a decrease of 14.000 unit compared to 2022 (-3,6%);
– The sun mothers, or the so -called "monogenitoric" families, they still have very approximate statistics for the reduced sample, however, The family nuclei in which the mother is the sole parent has increased as a consequence of the divorces, Motherhood separations and singular choices;
– I “Monogenitori”, that is, fathers and mothers alone, between 2011 and the 2021 have recorded an increase in 44%: Sun mothers have increased by 35,5%, While the only fathers increased by attesting to 85%.

This bill It would be interesting for the "monogenitoric" nuclei which according to Istat data would be growing and which include families sensitive to gender equality issues, Families with unmarried parents in which the choice of the surname can be more complex, In this and other cases the proposal would simplify the process of assigning the surname. It is extremely difficult to calculate precisely how many families would actually choose to use the maternal surname, But it could also arrive at 10-20% of families, This would represent a significant number of individuals who must not be excluded.

The political choice of the left, In recent years it could be considered progressive, But also wanting a form of radical struggle for civil recognition and legal and social adaptation to minority groups. According to what the current political exponents say in their ideological speeches made on televisions and rallies on the squares, these groups, ostracized or condemned throughout history, Today they must receive their full recognition within the company, If the company itself wants to be truly civil. This abandonment of the left towards the ideal of class struggle or against certain economic systems in which the operative or the proletarian class member was exploited as a propaganda element, it is no longer so important and relevant, as is the struggle for these minority groups, or to put it in other words: from the workers' struggles in the square with the parades of the metalworkers in a suit, We moved on to the gay pride with rainbow men dressed as grotesque faces in heels and mesh stockings.

It is an ideological choice, that of post-communists, which appears today more in contradiction with a world in which the defense of the weak, within economic-annibal powers, It is favored in its tragic inequalities among the classes precisely from the international claims, Those who yesterday screamed "Peace and Love" and who today scream to the rearmament of Europe, with Germany in the lead, who at the time was not properly unarmed by chance.

The transfer Freudian on certain privileged minorities come i cisgender and those who do not want to accept and adapt to "traditional" social roles and schemes, It seems a sort of "updating of the class struggle" or, Better one of his parodys, so that the basic concepts of culture can be revolutionized which little by little manage to "educate" the new generations, In addition to the people obliged in turn to change the company to their root. The ideological choice, however, even if it claims greater inclusion and tolerance, Too often it highlights the exclusivity of these minority groups at the expense of the majority of the population. They are statistically lower segments that are saved and protected by the "mass" almost like a new sort of different and welcoming higher "bundle". Complex theme, this, on which he wrote a far -sighted essay one of our author, Francesco Mangiacapra, In his work The coup of the politically correct - When minorities become dictatorship.

The new struggle of the left exponents not only forgets the people, as evidenced by the facts, But with unconscious comic vein uses the dialectic one in which the policies of opponents are presented as "belly rhetoric", or as a "bieco populism", Fomentati da talk show which feed victimism, The poses and the need for a vindictive redemption, Instead of the search for remuneration justice and the assets of each individual above their personal selfish or self -centered pleasures.

If we want a thought so to speak "left", You have to go back to the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, open an encyclical written by Paolo VI in 1967 entitled Development of Peoples, Read it carefully and learn what should really be the progress of peoples based on the common human and Christian sense, not on blind ideology.

the Island of Patmos, 9 April 2025

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