PACS – Civil Unions
Hundreds of thousands of couples are living together in Italy without being married. Many have children. None of them have pension or social security rights.
We are talking of true families that find that they can’t do the everyday activities that are allowed only to married couples.
In Italy everything is normalized, in fact even crime has been with the recent pardon. Amnesties and condoni have come thick and fast thanks to the Centre Right in the last few years. In this situation not to give rights to de facto families is inconceivable.
The traditional family is changing. Marriage with a religious or civil ritual is rare. We must simply take note of this. It’s not by ignoring the PACS that social dynamics are changed. But without extending certain fundamental rights of married couples to de facto couples, we are creating social inequalities, in particular among those with the lowest incomes.
The programme of the Unione aims to extend certain rights to de facto couples and all the parties of the coalition have signed up to this. The PACS are not against the Church but in favour of families and their rights.
All families must be at the centre of attention in politics with equal rights and duties according to principles of equity and solidarity.
Posted by Antonio Di Pietro in
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to Robert Morrison:
Until recently, under your last government, Australia has had a despicable policy of mandatory sentencing of newly arrived migrants seeking asylum.
Italy, on the contrary, never found it necessary to incarcerate innocent people for years and without trial - even under the conservative Berlusconi government, and despite of the high numbers of illegal arrivals getting to our shores each month.
If you speak of a country that needs to get out of the middle ages look at Down Under first.
I'm a gay Italian man living in a relationship having to deal with Italy's discrimination, but I'd be the first to say, that my problems caused by the lack of necessary laws in Italy, is minimal compared to the harsh reality that (non-white, non-christian) people who are less fortunate have to endure in Australian desert jails.
an ex-Melbournian
Posted by: Amerigo Caponetto | January 6, 2008 01:20 AM
It's incredible that as an Australian in Italy living in a de facto relationship my partner and I have no rights as a couple in Italy. YET if an italian couple want to immigrate to Australia, then the Australian government recognises them as legal couple (de facto) under the law - the same as, and with all the rights of, any couple married in a church or in a "comune" !!! look at the following web page IN ITALIAN AND ENGLISH which explains it.
http://www.focus-australia.it/VistiRicongiunzioni.html
Italy still has a long way to go to get out of the middle ages!
Posted by: Robert Morrison | February 6, 2007 11:56 AM