Alcune riflessioni sulla responsabilità genitoriale. Enunciati del diritto, rappresentazioni normative e pratiche sociali

Attempts have been under way for several years now to harmonise the legal regulation of family relations in the context of the process of european integration. The concept of parental responsibility has come to occupy a privileged position among the common denominators shared by the various legislative orders: a very complex concept - as the article sets out to do - in the light of the various implications of the notion in areas of knowledge other tan the law (moral philosophy, psychology, sociology,science of education, political sciences and also criminology).Parental responsibility is also examined as a social pratice that lends itself to being considered an exemplary form of "living law". In this sense, special significance is attributed to the new form, social or additional, of parenthood which oblige legislators to tackle questions concerning the status of filial relationship.