Category Archives: Books

The British High Court verdict (on past December) on the Keira Bell case has made headlines all over the world: “ruling that children are not competent to consent to being treated with puberty blockers is a victory for common sense”, says The Times English newspaper. For The Economist, a more liberal outlet, the verdict “could…

Reading is never a “duty.” This article is not meant to question the literary sophistication of the reader, nor is it a test to challenge you, like “let's see if my favorite books are there” or “let's see how many I miss.” It is rather a prompt, a suggestion of books that we (the Family…

Luca Muglia. The invisible garden. Psychospiritual therapy for young people in difficulty (Il giardino invisibile. Terapia psicospirituale per giovani in difficoltà). Aliberti, Reggio Emilia, 2020. Muglia bases his wide-ranging reflections upon his experience in the recovery of young people in a Juvenile Criminal Institute in Southern Italy. He advances in this book a proposal for…

We often talk about how to help young people to have public spirit. There are plans to enhance their education in schools, to develop projects that help young people to respect the others and the environment; to follow the rules of good behavior that life in society imposes for the common good. We should certainly…

If this year you want to treat yourself to something that has "value" and helps you both to progress on your journey together, we recommend a book that can be considered a hymn to true love between man and woman; a book that all couples should read in at least once in their life... Letters…

“Arturo, (known as “little Arthur” to everyone) grew up giving his very best, with tenacity, energy, vivacity, joy, sympathy... in short, caring in everything! [...] The first objective difficulties began when he put on the first prosthesis. For a child only a year old, it should not have been so easy to learn how to…

In Veneto (Italia) il calo demografico non è un problema come nel resto del Paese: la crisi economica non incombe e la natalità è ancora un valore. A vacillare, però, è l’accoglienza della vita “senza se” e “senzama”. In particolare, c’è una città, Treviso, in cui 7 donne su 10, dopo aver fatto esami prenatali,…

"I have no doubt that families with disabled children can be happy, but who, being able to choose, would not want a perfectly healthy child?" Recently, I was asked this question by a person in favor of assisted reproduction, if a couple risks giving birth to an ill child. I admit that if I had…

The "happiest" marriages would be those without children: to support this claim, an English survey, conducted by the Open University. According to the survey, carried out on a sample of 5,000 people, couples with children would tend to be more dissatisfied with their married life than those who do not. Therefore, to that sample of…

Returning from vacation is never easy. On one hand, we like to get back our daily routine, but the desire to stay at sea, in the mountains, or simply taking a break at home can linger for a long while after. Is there a way to not think too much at the end of the…