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Anon
Re: Letting the Italians do what they want, it seems like there are some Italians who do not like these laws and are trying to change them. I say let those Italians do what they want too. Same names are no requirement for inheritance-- if a child's parents are not married they might be inheriting directly from their mother or her family. Having the father's last name will not help at all with that situation.
It should be left up to the couple what name the child gets. It'll probably end up being the father's name most of the time anyway, but that's the parents' decision to make, not the government's.