One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter's birth certificate...

One mom said she cried for 10 days after hearing she was being removed from her daughter’s birth certificate.

  • marmo7ade@lemmy.world
    915·
    2 years ago

    In the USA, if I were to adopt a child, would my name be put on the birth certificate? I don’t actually know how this works. How does the birth certificate affect the legal guardians?

    Edit: nvm, I read the article:

    While same-sex civil unions have been legal in the country since 2016, same-sex couples do not have the right to adopt, thanks in part to opposition from the Catholic Church. Surrogacy remains illegal in Italy and there are restrictions that prevent the adoption of “stepchildren” by one parent. Medically assisted reproduction, like in vitro fertilization (IVF), is only available to heterosexual couples.

    Italy needs to fix a lot of things.

    • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe@kbin.social
      451·
      2 years ago

      It’s not enough to carve out a portion of your sovereignty for the kid diddler cult to have a golden castle city guarded by foreign mercenaries, you also have to listen to their stances on parenthood, which they are, surely, experts, in.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 years ago

      It’s not enough to carve out a portion of your sovereignty for the kid diddler cult

      Huh, TIL the Catholic Church had lost all its territory to Italy and then later was granted some back (by Mussolini, no less) instead of having continuous sovereignty stemming from the Papal States and predating a unified Italy itself.

      That’s the second time in two days that I’ve been about to “ackchyually” somebody but ended up learning something myself instead. I’m getting more and more impressed with the quality of discussion here on Lemmy.

    • barsoap@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      and there are restrictions that prevent the adoption of “stepchildren” by one parent.

      That one was judged unconstitutional in Germany as it bereaves the child of a perfectly suitable caregiver – that is it wasn’t a matter of gay rights for the court but children’s rights. In the end, before gay marriage was introduced, the only difference between marriages and civil unions was that gay couples could not adopt jointly, only one after the other, and generally speaking authorities are quite reluctant when it comes to singles adopting kids they aren’t related to by blood.