(ANSAmed) – ZAGREB, MAY 26 – In Croatia, as of today, rainbow families, gay or lesbian couples, have the right to adopt children. This was decided by the Croatian High Administrative Court in a ruling that rejects the argument of the Ministry of the Family and accepts the request of a gay couple from Zagreb to enter the register of possible parents for adoption.
The legal battle of Mladen Kožić and Ivo Šegota began eight years ago when their request to the social assistance center to be entered in the register of possible adoptive parents was rejected, after an assessment of their eligibility to adopt minors, in the same way of heterosexual couples. All the petitions to which they then turned had rejected their request, explaining that the Croatian law on civil unions, in force since 2014, does not provide for the right of adoption, guaranteeing homosexual couples all the rights of traditional marriage, with the exception precisely of the adoption.
Today the High Administrative Court has defined this motivation as discriminatory, appealing to the European Convention on Human Rights and its judgments, which consider distinctions based on sexual orientation illegal, even in the context of family law. In essence, the Court ordered the social centers to take applications from same-sex couples into consideration for consideration, and then, if so, to be placed on very long waiting lists in Croatia for the ‘adoption of minors without a family. (ANSAmed).
Source: Ansa
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