PD bill for children to only take mother's surname

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 25 - 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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