The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations

Sentence No. 33, issued by the Constitutional Court on 21 March 2025, opens up the possibility for singles to apply to the Juvenile Courts to be assessed for access to intercountry adoption, where they had been excluded for decades, except in special cases. In the light of this novelty (not unanimou...

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Main Author: Stefania Lorenzini
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Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2025-05-01
Series:Educazione Interculturale
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Online Access:https://educazione-interculturale.unibo.it/article/view/21988
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description Sentence No. 33, issued by the Constitutional Court on 21 March 2025, opens up the possibility for singles to apply to the Juvenile Courts to be assessed for access to intercountry adoption, where they had been excluded for decades, except in special cases. In the light of this novelty (not unanimously shared but long awaited by many), the contribution takes the opportunity to focus on some crucial passages in the evolution of national and international adoption legislation and the related transformations in the conceptions of family and adoptive filiation, up to the aforementioned judgment. And to turn attention on an educational level to some aspects of single-parent and adoptive parenting.
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The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
Educazione Interculturale
national and international adoption
single parenthood
laws
family concepts
education
title The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
title_full The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
title_fullStr The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
title_full_unstemmed The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
title_short The evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption: from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption. Educational considerations
title_sort evolution of laws and social conceptions concerning adoption from the 1960s to the inclusion of single parents in intercountry adoption educational considerations
topic national and international adoption
single parenthood
laws
family concepts
education
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