Italy: Law requiring use of father's surname 'discriminatory'

Children of married couples in Italy will be allowed to carry their mother's surname, after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The court found that the country's practice of automatically registering a child under the father's surname was "patriarchal" and "discriminatory". via Pocket http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25645720#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa