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Inside Europe: The plight of Italy's divorced dads

Angelo van Schaik
November 23, 2018

A conservative Senator from Italy’s League party says he wants to improve the life of divorced fathers. Simone Pillon has proposed a controversial bill that would end alimony and see children shared equally by their parents. Some 800,000 divorced fathers in Italy live on or under the poverty line as a result of their divorce. Angelo Van Schaik met up with one of them in Bologna.

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