Rachel Savage and Seb Starcevic report for Reuters about a Croatian court’s ruling which would allow same-sex partners to adopt children, and is backing a gay couple in their five-year fight for the right to have a family.
As reported by the Rainbow Families Association (RFA), on April 21, Zagreb’s Administrative Court ruled same-sex couples should face no discrimination in state adoption. The couple, Mladen Kožić and Ivo Šegota, are set to be the first same-sex couple in Croatia to be able to adopt children after being allowed to foster two boys in September of last year.
The government has 15 days from receiving the judgment to appeal, but emailed a statement saying it would not comment on the ruling “until it becomes non-appealable and final”.
Since joining the European Union, Croatia has introduced human rights reforms, but the country remains relatively conservative.
If the court’s ruling stands, Croatia would be the 15th EU member state to allow same-sex couples to adopt children together.
Same-sex civil partnerships (“life partnerships”) were legalised in Croatia in 2014, following a referendum that defined marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman in the country’s constitution.
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