Ah! The Italian family! This quintessential symbol of Italianità, the very root of our own society, a harbor of peace for most, has changed a lot in recent years. Once upon a time, families were formed by parents, their children and their grandparents. It was customary to live all under the same roof and it wasn’t unusual to have other relatives, like uncles and cousins, living in the same house or very close by. Families were the most basic structure of society and they really worked like a micro-social system: everything could be found and solved within it.
Things today are different. Perhaps, nuclear families (the ones described above) are no longer as common as they used to be, but extended families became a new norm. The rise of separations and divorces in the country meant that many children now have step-siblings and step-parents and the right for rainbow families to become parents created new units with two moms or two dads.
