THEn this column you will have read many times, over time, of my support for adoptions by singles. In the past I had underlined the paradox of our law which, until yesterday, allowed people without a stable relationship to grow children only in extraordinary situations: in the event of minors with serious or orphaned disabilities or in that of pre -existing emotional relationships between the single and the minor.
The latter was the case of Simona Venturathe television presenter who, already having two of their own biological children, he adopted, as a single, in 2014, a girl he had had in foster care for four yearsstarting from the age of a month and a half.
Many will then remember the beautiful story of Luca Trapanisingle, councilor for social policies of the Municipality of Naples, who adopted Alba in 2018, a newborn with Down syndrome. Luca had known that the Court of Naples had opened the register for adoptions also to singles, given that for some categories of children there were no demands from couples: they were children with serious disabilities or victims of abuse and violence.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
His case also made news for Luca’s declared homosexualitya particular particular in a period in which international adoptions, by gay couples, were already very opposed in Italy.
At the time notes that Our law was very original if allowed to singles adoption in the most complex casesfor whom perhaps it would have been more logical to think of the couple as an ideal place in which to share such responsibility.
Luca Trapani and little Alba
There seemed to be there, behind that choice of the legislator, an unconventional unconventional one. As if those children were “children of a minor God” and the singles, in turn, their “last beach”. Or maybe there was only healthy realism.
Certain, Today that the opening of international adoptions is also celebrated to singles, what struck me, in addition to the good news, is the enthusiasm with which it was accepted. It is as if the singles had stopped being considered irreparable selfish. As if single now … we were a little bit all of us.
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