“…Over the past decade scholars have looked at mixed couples and families as a kind of 'social and cultural laboratory' (Barbara, 1993) in which to study the relationships within the conjugal dyad, the socialisation of the children and the reaction of the socio-institutional context to the choice to break the endogamous norm (Cerchiaro 2019(Cerchiaro , 2020(Cerchiaro and 2021Odasso, 2016Odasso, , 2020aOdasso, , 2020bOdasso, and 2021Collet 2012;Song and Gutierrez, 2015a;Edwards et al, 2010). Parenting, in particular, has emerged as a privileged space in which to observe how partners cope with their different backgrounds and seek to transmit to their offspring a sense of belonging 3 to one's group (Deirdre, 2002;Rockquemore and Laszloffy, 2005;McCarthy, 2007;Edwards et al, 2010;Arweck and Nesbitt, 2010;Gutierrez, 2015a, 2015b;Cerchiaro et al, 2015).…”