1 February 2007

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 Society