Luciana Littizzetto after the sentence on singles adoptions: “It doesn’t matter if you are married, it matters if you want to make room for a person who is not yet there, but what you love already”

Luciana Littizzetto, adopted mother of Vanessa and Giordan and foster of Svetlana, to What time does it do, On the nine, he took the opportunity to comment on the historical sentence of the Constitutional Court which has finally opened the doors of international adoption also to singles, explaining why it is a real revolution.

In recent days, the Court wrote a page of history with the sentence number 33, filed on March 21, 2025: he said The rule that excluded singles from the adoption of foreign minors residing abroad excluded unconstitutional. Until yesterday, article 28-bis, paragraph 1, of Law 184 of 1983 allowed only married couples for at least three years to adopt a foreign child. Now, however, even those who are single will be able to do it. It will no longer be Italy to say no, but it will be the country of origin of the minor to evaluate if there is compatibility.

«Dear Single, you have finally been considered able to grow a child with your love. Until yesterday we thought no. You could have been a surgeon, a planes pilot, soldier, minister of agriculture. But parent? Never. Now the Consulta has canceled a 40 -year -old ban and said a simple and revolutionary thing: The family is where there is love. It doesn’t matter if you are married or single, it matters if you want to make room in your heart To a person who is not yet there, but who already loves. This is a very powerful form of love, almost superhero, “explained Luciana Littizzetto in her letter.

«It is an extra right, which like all rights adds freedom without taking it away from anyone. And it happened here, in Italy, in the land of the popes, where every now and then, miraculously, something moves. Elsewhere, it is already normal. In the United States, adoption for singles is legal everywhere, as well as in Spain, Canada, England, Australia. Nobody asks you who sleeps with, “he added. «With us, however, there is still the idea that the family is mom, dad, two children, a dog and holidays in Val Pusteria. Beautiful Val Pusteria, eh, I love it. But there are also different families: with only mom, only the father, two moms, two dads … and even some extravagant family that does not go on vacation in Val Pusteria ».

Of course, the door of international adoption has opened up, but the journey remains complicated: «Know, dear singles, that the countries where you can adopt there are not many: Colombia, India, Vietnam, South Africa, Peru, Filippine, Brazil. Once upon a time there was also Ukraine, one of the few countries that also accepted single men, but today, with war – which sucks for this too – everything is suspended. The Consulta opened a door to you, but behind that door There are still barred doors, such as that of national adoption. And that door we have to throw it down to pedal. And we will be with you to unhinge him ».

The adoption remains a long and complex path: “It won’t be a walk. There will be interviews, documents, judgments, long and exhausting expectations. And then the money: for an international adoption you pay, and even a lot, from 12 to 35 thousand euros. You will feel a balancer without a network. You will have huge fears and you will need double the courage. Are you ready, parent 1 and parent 2? Are you ready to be alone with a mini-man or a mini-woman who passes from laugh to cry in a nanosecond? To give up dinners, travel, cars, to receive varicelle and intestinal viruses? Do you feel ready to review the 7 chlorophyll photosynthesis and the Carolingian dynasties? To enter the parents’ chat and tell the first appointment that you have a child, and then never see that man again? To be always available, more than a firefighter or of Marzullo in Rai? ».

But, if the answer is yes, “don’t give up. When you have that child in your arms, you will understand that you did well to resist. Because becoming a parent, like any form of love, is a sudden earthquake of happiness. And we are never really prepared for happiness. The story goes on: once it was said Two is mei Che Onenow it is said One is mei che nient. Long live the Constitutional Court! And now we are waiting for national adoptions to open to singles and that it changes that absurd law that prevents entrusted families from adopting children who grow up. A kiss also in Dalila di Lazzaro, which I don’t know, but who has been banging for this battle for years. This victory is his too ».

Source: Vanity Fair

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