Dad's Letter From Italy.
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Dads Letter From Italy in English
This is a wonderful message that I am excited to share with everyone from an Italian website. The headline translates to "The family will have tomorrow, if today will be given the opportunity to grow in consciousness." On any Windows computer, I can Right Click and translate from any language to English or at least so far from French and Italian. In the last paragraph, the Italians make 5 recommendations for strengthening divorced families, which are the majority of us. I will try my best to list them.
First, we should make a declaration that children of divorce or separation have the right to two parents. Second, the family has changed dramatically over the last 50 years, or at least since the advent of divorce in 1970. Laws need to be reviewed, having foresight and sensitivity to understand the true meaning of family today. Third, schools need to introduce the Culture Bigenitoriale, promoting this ethical message and protecting the parent-child relationship. Fourth, and this is difficult but essential: all parties must take up this ethical responsibility, Judges, lawyers, and teachers (I may have missed a few in this list, but I've mentioned them in other posts) to not profit from divorce and to create conditions for the attendance by children to both their parent's homes, with deterrence for those who obstruct the association with the other parent. Fifth, introduce pre-nuptial agreements, so there is a functional awareness of the mutual obligations to care for children and to plan to parent.
Yesterday, I talked about parents being role models for their children. I think these Italian parents are being role models for all of us. Like teachers, dads are not broken or failing; fathers are striving and evolving. We need to change the way we talk about parents.
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