What Family Really Means

In these days, in Italy, a strong debate is taking place, dealing with same sex marriage. Same sex couples are still not allowed to register themselves in Italy, while this is possible in most of the European countries. The worst part of what is happening is the “family day”. Somehow people against same sex couples, want to remark once again that there’s only one type of family, the heterosexual, Christian one.

It might seem completely unrelated, but today I changed apartment. Due to my job, I changed more than one apartment during the last year. This time though, I was not alone. Moving together with my girlfriend, was a different experience: moving all of her stuff too, handling the stress from both sides and helping each other was the main part of the whole weekend. This helps me answer this simple question: what is a family? A family is where two person, no matter the sex, their social status and what they do, decide to live together and help each other. They decide to share most of their moments and be there all the time. That’s so easy, so beyond any possible law we can set on earth that I really don’t get how someone could be against same sex couples or marriage. Just let people be together and help each other.