EUROPE/SPAIN - Professionals Pro-ethics Memorandum: every adopted child has the right to have a female parent and a male parent, to belong to a family as similar as possible to the natural family and not to be exposed to traumatic experiments

Monday, 23 May 2005

Madrid (Fides Service) - In response to the Spanish government’s proposal to amend the country’s Civil Code to allow children to be adopted by same-sex couples the Spanish Association of Professionals Pro-ethics issued a detailed memorandum entitled “Children have Rights”, addressed to the executive and the general public and signed by more than 1,000 jurists, family doctors, psychiatrists, paediatricians, psychologists, teachers and social workers in which it claims and defends the rights of children and firmly rejects the proposal to allow children to be adopted by a couple of the same sex (see Fides interview to the President of the association 20/5/2005).
The experts recall that the purpose of adoption is to offer a minor a stable home in which to grow up, an environment to replace the home and parents the child has lost or never had. The experts say from experience that from the early months of life children identify the figure of mother and father, whether or not they know their biological parents. The experts recall that Spanish law bases adoption on the principles of the child’s wellbeing and integration into a family and they also point out that with regard to the consequences for children adopted by same sex couples, no serious scientific research exist.
According to the above mentioned principles, Professionals Pro-ethics affirm: every adopted child has the right to have a female parent and a male parent, to belong to a family as similar as possible to a natural family and in which to reach full physical, intellectual and moral development, to have access to the same opportunities as other children who have their natural mother and a father and not to be exposed to traumatic experiments. (RG) (Agenzia Fides 23/5/2005, righe 22, parole 312)


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