I think society is far more nuanced these days. How many of us would view the traditional nuclear family as the definitive one. Although, not ideal for everyone, it's still a place where many children thrive, not all. I'm glad, as a mother who raised boys, one ran rings round me in his teens, that I had their father who was and still is a positive and important influence in their lives. I question how good a job I'd have done, certainly with my most challenging child as a lone mother, although they tell me I was a good mum, but that's now, not always then when I was grappling with a gobby teen. Although having said that I do know several single mothers who were brilliant. We hear so much about the lack of male role models for boys, either in the home or at school and how boys seek those out in areas of influence that haven't been so great and at times positively ruinous and damaging. There's a lot of worry about boys development, so maybe, we, as a society, should be less dismissive about the role of the father.
Possibly, she is perceived as far right, personally, I don't see Georgia Meloni lined up along side say for example, Franco or the Generals from the numerous military juntas of Latin America throughout their troubled history, who ruled their people with an iron fist and committed many human rights abuses. She's pretty conservative on many issues, but I also think she's a woman who is trying to do the best for the people of Italy I see her as more pragmatic than some leaders of today. Far right, hard left, intransigent theocracies are easily defined, absolute power, no dissenting opposition, control over the media, and a police state. To step out of line you do so at your peril, torture, imprisonment, disappearance . In my opinion there is a distinction between conservative values and, I don't agree with some of them such as anti abortion, I also believe in religion being kept out of politics and the state should be secular. It does appear increasingly to express an opinion about border controls, unfettered immigration, to put one's head above the parapet and to state that there are too many worrying aspects surrounding criminal activities of undocumented male migrants from cultures that do not accept women as their equals,or if they stray outside the home on their own somehow they're asking to be sexually assaulted, or to say that you don't acknowledge that a man wearing a dress automatically confers on him the right to be recognised as a woman and access women only spaces, is to suggest that you're somehow morphing into a fully fledged member of the Third Reich.
