What changes for children of Lgbt couples
What are ways for LGBT to have kids?
Here's what changes in practice after the Senate's "no" vote on the recognition of children of Lgbt couples
- Why the "no" to the recognition of children born to Lgbt couples
- Today there is a lack of a law to protect the children of Lgbt couples
- What specifically changes for children of Lgbt couples
- What is "adoption in special cases"
- The limits: "half" parents?
- The jungle of bureaucracy
- How it works in Europe
As of today, Lgbt couples have one more problem. Indeed, the rejection by the Senate European Policy Committee of the recognition of children of Lgbt couples has immediate practical consequences.
The majority voted "no" to a Brussels proposal that seeks to equalize the rights of children of heterosexual couples with those born within families with two mothers or two fathers. It effectively represents a stop to the equalization of so-called "social parenting" with biological parenting. Recently, moreover, the Ministry of the Interior urged of prefects to stop the "de facto recognition" that some municipalities (such as Milan and Turin) had been implementing for some time. But what actually changes?
Why the "no" to the recognition of children born to Lgbt couples
The Senate resolution rejected what is currently a proposal of the European Commission "in particular the obligation of recognition (and consequent transcription) of a judicial decision or public act, issued by another member state." Basically, it said "no" to "the obligation to recognize the European certificate of filiation." What does this mean? "The EU regulation that was intended to be approved would not need implementing laws: it means that, unlike European directives, if it had been approved it would have come into force immediately," explains attorney Lorenzo Puglisi, of Family Legal, a firm specializing in Family Law. "It is clearly a political choice. Italy today is the third last country not to have a law on filiation for same-sex couples. Until now there had been autonomous and differentiated initiatives by mayors, who had intervened administratively by establishing specific registers where to transcribe the births of children of same-sex couples. Now the Senate wanted to block this distortion, which is the result of a loophole: a specific law would be needed," the lawyer continued.
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