Is called German the newborn abandoned in a basket and found on Saturday evening in Catania. As happens in these cases, the name was chosen by the staff of the neonatology department of the Garibaldi hospital where the child was hospitalized. He was the saint of the Sabbath day. The little one is doing well and is eating regularly. According to the investigations made, it would have come to light a few hours before its abandonment and its discovery, thanks to the sound of crying by a passer-by.
Many requests for foster care have arrived at the hospital, but it is the court for minors of Catania to have to decide. Usually a newborn with unknown parents is declared immediately adoptable by the Juvenile Court. His has priority over everything right to have a family. The times are very short, even just a month, for matching with a family after the declaration of the state of abandonment. In the following months, definitive adoption can be reached.
They end up in the news in cases of abandonment on the street like that of Catania, but many more women decide to give birth anonymously and leave the children in the hospital. The law allows it. The law in force is 184 of 1983, resumed from 194 of 2001, provides that children born to a mother who did not want to be named (this is written on the deed) can access the medical record and therefore the mother’s name only after 100 years of birth. There are about 200 cases a year: 243 in 2018, 193 in 2019.
There are many more minors removed from their parents who are unable to take care of them and are declared adoptable: 1046 in 2019. There are about 90 adoption decrees for every 100 declarations of adoptability in our country. The couple who decides to adopt must have been married for at least 3 years, but they can also count the years of cohabitation. The age of the adopters must be at least eighteen and no more than forty-five years older than the age of the adopter, with the possibility of derogation in case of serious harm to the minor.
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Source: Vanity Fair
