The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of the Ministry of the Interior against the decision of the Court of Appeal of Rome to disapply the ministerial decree of 31 January 2019, with which the term "parents" was eliminated on the identity cards of children to return to the wording "father" and "mother".
This is what Il Sole 24 Ore writes, reporting the ruling of the joint civil sections according to which "the indication 'father' and 'mother' on the electronic identity card is discriminatory - the newspaper reads - because it does not represent same-sex couples who have resorted to adoption in particular cases ".
The Court of Rome had « ordered to indicate only 'parent' on the electronic identity card of a minor child of two mothers, one natural and one adopted, who had resorted to step child adoption ». For the judges of Piazzale Clodio this was a forced choice so that the document, «valid for expatriation, gave a representation corresponding to the civil status of the child, who had the right to obtain an identity card, also useful for travel abroad, which represented his real family situation . A right that the Cie model, prepared by the Ministry of the Interior - it is written - does not guarantee because it does not represent all 'the legitimate conformations of family units and related filiation relationships' . For the Court of Cassation, in essence, "it is unreasonable and discriminatory".
The 2019 ministerial decree stated that the electronic card "allowed only one of the two mothers to be indicated appropriately and required the other to have her relationship classified according to a modality ('father') that was not appropriate for her gender."
(Online Union)
