Single Italians can adopt foreign
minors too, as well as couples, the Constitutional Court said
Friday, effectively ending a ban on the practice.
A 1983 law did not include single people among those who can
adopt a foreign minor residing abroad.
Alessandro Zan, responsible for rights in the national
secretariat of the Democratic Party, hailed the sentence as
historic in a note, saying: "The ruling of the Constitutional
Court, which declared the exclusion of single people from
international adoptions illegitimate, is a historic turning
point.
"Because it puts the rights of minors and the freedom of
self-determination of every individual first.
"Now Parliament must intervene, adapt the legislation and remove
every ideological obstacle. "(Premier Giorgia) Meloni and her
Government must recognize once and for all that what matters is
love, not marital status.
"And now let's go further: this right must also be extended to
gay couples.
"Enough discrimination, enough prejudice: every child has the
right to a family, and every family has the right to be
recognized."
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