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Gay Couple Has Child with Female Friend… Italian Court Recognizes 'Three Parents' for the First Time

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An Italian court has ruled that a 4-year-old child has a total of three legal parents. According to Reuters on the 12th (local time), the child was born in Germany and was living there with two married men. One of the two men is the child.

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An Italian court has ruled that a 4-year-old child has a total of three legal parents. According to Reuters on the 12th (local time), the child was born in Germany and was living there with two married men. One of the two men is the child.

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The Court of Appeal has transcribed the act of birth of the Italian-German child

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An Italian court has ruled for the first time that a child can have three parents: a mother and two fathers. The groundbreaking ruling from Bari has sparked a political and social debate. The article "For the first time, a court has ruled that a child has three parents" comes from the website Wszystko co mojego.

An appeals court in Bari, Italy, has recognized the parental relationship between a child and three adults. Thanks to the ruling, which has become final, the child now has three parents – two fathers and one mother, the Adnkronos agency reported. According to organizations supporting LGBT+ rights, this is a groundbreaking decision in a country that has a rather conservative approach to parental rights for same-sex couples.

Reuters writes about this. The child was born in Germany, where he lives there with two men who have married. One of them is the biological father and the mother is a friend of the couple. An Italian-German citizen, who is the child's non-biological father, later adopted her under German law. Then he also submitted an application for the adoption process in Italy.It is noted that initially the local Italian authorities rejected this request, sus…

For the first time in the history of Italian justice, the Court of Appeal in Bari ruled that a child can have three parents—a mother and two fathers. This decision sparked widespread social and political debate, and was sharply criticized by the Italian Minister for Family Affairs.

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il Giornale broke the news in Italy on Tuesday, May 12, 2026.
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