“Above everything”: With this lettering, accompanied by a heart and the name #eugenio, Silvia Salis announced the birth of her son with Fausto Brizzi on Instagram. The first photo of the little one, taken immediately after birth, is in black and white and shows him with mom and dad.
The vice president of CONI and the director jointly decided to give the newborn the maternal surname. A June 2022 Council decision declared assigning only the father’s surname to newborns illegitimate. Today you can specify your paternal, maternal or both last names.
“The possibility of using the mother’s last name in paternal recognition represents an epochal cultural shift and has gone incredibly unnoticed,” said Salis and Brizzi a few days before Eugenio’s birth.
For the couple, who appeared on the red carpet in Venice with their noticeable baby bump, “it’s important to make a statement with a male newborn. We felt like it was the right time to do it because we live in a country where every day in the news we see men who continue to believe that women and children are their “property” and can be used as they please . In these cases, punishment is necessary, but it is a cultural change that we need. A “A man who understands from childhood that there is absolute equality in his family will not become one of the above men.”
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