What is required within an Italian family?

In return for protection, the family demands absolute loyalty and all wrongs done to the family must be avenged, each member bound to provide for the greater good of the family, even sacrificing personal property and finances if the situation calls for it. The family also demands many male descendants to carry on the name and the heritage so male children are especially anticipated and favored. Children are taught early the dichotomy of the family: behaving with a code of honesty and integrity within the family but reverting to wily, hostile behavior in the outside world which is viewed as the enemy.