Don't automatically give kids father's name says top court

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 27 - Italy's Constitutional Court ruled Wednesday that all norms that automatically attribute a father's surname to his children are illegitimate.
    The court said that both parents surnames should be given to their children.
    The top court said the norm attributing the father's name to his children "is discriminatory and injurious of the child's identity".
    Children should be given both parents' surnames in the order the parents agree on, the court said.
    Or the parents may agree that their children should bear the surname of just one of them, the supreme court added.
    Failing an agreement on the order of name attribution, the court said, a judge should decide. (ANSA).