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The Italian parliament has decided to change the patriarchal concept according to which the child receives the surname of the father unless the father’s identity is unknown.



The women members of Parliament, which allows the parents to choose the surname of their child or gives a newborn both parents’ surname like in Spain, have initiated the move.



The law was challenged in February by a couple in Milan who wanted to give their daughter the mother’s surname. Though the Constitutional Court called the law ‘a remnant of a patriarchal conception of the family inconsistent with equality of the sexes,’ it ruled that it could not overturn the law in this case, as did Italy’s highest appeals court in May, according to the Guardian. Both the Constitutional Court and Italy’s Supreme Court have called upon parliament to change the law.



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