With the decision of 2 July 2021, the Court of Cassation confirmed that parents are under no obligation to keep their offspring forever; this duty ceases in fact if the children, having reached a certain age, do not study profitably, or refuse a job offer considering it not up to their expectations.
This is because, as was already anticipated with a sentence of August 2020, the children do not have the right to “every possible right”, but must lower their professional plans in the changed social context; young people cannot unconditionally claim to be maintained; they are subject, the Supreme Court likes to say, “self-responsible” with the obligation to take action to become autonomous, without waiting for the chance of life, counting in the meantime …
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