Whether it is school runs or doctors’ visits, Maria Silvia Fiengo and Francesca Pardi have always shared in the raising of their four children. But in recent months – after Italy’s rightwing government began cracking down on the listing of same-sex parents on birth certificates – the life they have forged together has been thrust into uncertainty.
“We’re a bit worried. You never know what is going to happen,” said Fiengo. “Our children have had two parents from the very first moment they were dreamed of and brought into the world. But we’re not protected by any law.”
Following the birth of their children, she and Pardi spent years battling for legal recognition, butting up constantly against the absence of a national law setting out parental rights for same-sex couples. In 2018, the city council of Milan offered up a lifeline, telling them it would begin listing parents of the same gender on their children’s birth certificates.
“It was really beautiful,” said Fiengo. “It gave us strength, our family felt more secure.” » | Ashifa Kassam, Europe Community affairs correspondent | Monday, August 21, 2023
Do you think, perhaps, that Giorgia Meloni feels justified in robbing same-sex couples of their rights because she herself is a paragon of Christian virtue? Check this out and make up your own mind!
The birth-rate in the West is at an all-time low; in fact, it is dangerously low. It could be said that any population growth is due largely to immigration rather than to births in the indigenous population.
One of the main reasons for this is the growth of feminism in the West, and women wanting to have all the rights of men in the workplace instead of concentrating on their traditional roles as mothers as a devout Christian believes God is said to have ordained. Gay rights have nothing to do with this, because, indubitably, a gay is born that way; so, generally doesn’t get married and father children anyway, with or without gay rights. Denying a gay the right to be gay or the right to be a father is NOT going to increase the birth-rate in Western countries.
As it happens, the birth-rate in Italy is abominably low! Only 1.25 babies per woman are being born. This means that for every twelve deaths, only seven babies are being born. [Source: CNN>].
Might I therefore suggest to Signora Meloni that the way to deal with this unsettling situation is not to take rights away from gays; rather, it is to introduce policies to attract woman back into the home to start procreating! There is a plethora of possible government policies that could be introduced to attract women back into the home; there are many ways to make motherhood cool again. – © Mark Alexander
