The Italian Constitutional Court has decided that even single people can adopt foreign children. This has destroyed a 40 -year law that limits the adoption to married couples.
The judges decided that an article from a law from 1983 that single people refuse the right to adoption for foreign children is not legally in accordance with media information on Saturday.
The regulation, which was explained illegally, limited the right to adoptive adoption, said it. The constitutional judges ruled that single people were generally suitable for guaranteeing a stable and harmonious environment for the needy child, whereby it was the responsibility of a youth court to specifically the effective suitability of the potential parent and the ability to raise and maintain the child. This assessment must also take into account the Family Reference Network of the singles that are willing to adopt.
The adoption laws of Italy must be updated
Given the decreasing number of adoption requests for foreign children, the court stated that the prohibition of one -sided mountains was risked that the child’s right to grow up in a stable and harmonious family environment. The verdict underlines the need to update the Italian adoption laws to take into account the social and family changes, according to Paolo Lonta, president of the CIAI, an Italian association that is committed to the adoption of children from abroad.
Alessandro Zan, top politician of the Partito Democratico (PD), the strongest opposition party, welcomed the judgment as historical: “The judgment of the Constitutional Court lays the rights of minors and the freedom of self -determination of each individual.
“It is completely unreasonable and absurd to exclude individual people from the start. The prohibition is unconstitutional and it is good that Parliament now has to intervene to adapt,” said Senator Daniela Sbrollini, vice -president of the Senate Committee for Social Affairs.
In Italy, a judge has the last word about whether a person – so far only when he is married – is suitable after a thorough investigation by psychologists and social workers to hire a child. “The wells of the children do not significantly depend on whether the parents in the family are married, live, separate, single or the same -sex, but is guaranteed by the quality of the family relationship,” Losta emphasized.
Source: Krone
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