'Free to choose' bill for mafia kids and wives becomes law

(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 15 - A so-called 'free to choose' bill offering legal and fruitful alternative lives to the children and wives of mafiosi became law when it won final approval in the Senate Wednesday. The law, the fruit of a move by a minors' court chair in the Sicilian city of Catania, will enable Mafia offspring up to the age of 25 and the female partners of mafiosi to opt out of Mob life and be free to build legal futures for themselves instead of following their father's and men's foot...

By ANSA