It provides the new text of the European Convention which will be approved in May. every State in the Old Continent will have to amend their national laws to adapt to this principle. Vita.it is to bring forward to the Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio .
Rome, 21 February. (Adnkronos) - The single and unmarried heterosexual couples have the right to adopt a child and all European states should amend their laws National adapt to this principle. The Council of Europe in May to approve the new text of the European Convention on the adoption of minors. Vita.it to anticipate the contents of the text is Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. ''The Convention currently in force in 1967, after forty years, says Deputy Secretary of the Council of Europe at the site of the weekly non-profit had to take into account the changes that have occurred in society. For this reason, the new Convention also extends the possibility of adopting the single and unmarried heterosexual couples.''
The deputy secretary is also very explicit on compulsory for nation states to implement this point:''What of singles is a right full, and states will be forced to change their laws .'' Italy itself will be involved in this process, as the law governing adoption, 149, 2001, permits the adoption only to married couples married for at least three years.''
Among the things to come, even the opening of adoption to same-sex couples, whether registered or simply cohabiting. On this, however, the Convention will not be prescriptive: the Convention''opens this possibility, but left to the discretion of individual states, explains the de Boer-Buquicchio-indeed in recent weeks there has been an important ruling of the Court European Human Rights, which condemned France for having discriminated against a woman for her sexual orientation. We could not disregard it.''
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