Italian court rules child can have 2 ‘fathers’ and 1 mother as legal parents – Allah's Willing Executioners
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An appeals court has ordered Italy to recognize a German adoption that gives a 4-year-old child one mother and two “fathers” as his legal parents, the first such ruling of its kind in Italy.
On May 12, Italy’s Court of Appeal in Bari made public a decree ruled on January 21, 2026, according to which a German adoption involving a child born to a woman and later adopted by the “husband” of the biological father must be recognized under Italian law.
“It is a ruling that grants protection to new forms of shared parenthood, which is not in conflict either with Italian law or with the superior interest of the child,” attorney Pasqua Manfredi said in comments reported by the Italian press.
The child was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on December 17, 2021, to a woman described in court documents as a longtime friend of a same-sex male “couple” who had been together for more than a decade and “married” in Germany since 2019. The boy was initially registered as the child of the biological …