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No Same-Gender Adoption Requests
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January 29, 2010
Mexico City - As of Thursday, Mexico City's Family Development Agency (DIF) had yet to receive any applications from same-gender couples to adopt children.
DIF director Patricia Patiño Fierro said that the agency is obliged to act within the legal framework and not discriminate against any pair or person who requests to adopt minors. In Mexico City, “an individual or a couple can request adoption independently of their sexual preference and there are a series of regulations established in the Civil Code,” Patiño said. “It is our duty (to admit these types of adoption requests).”
Regarding the Federal Attorney General Office's (PGR) announcement that it is submitting to the Supreme Court an appeal of unconstitutionality against Mexico City's ruling to allow same-gender marriages, Patiño said that “the ethics of one person and his or her moral quality to undertake an adoption process isn't decided by sexual orientation.”
This quality, she continued, is determined by values and principles that non-heterosexuals are capable of creating, based on respect and personal development. Patiño was speaking at the book presentation of “Childhood Participation: the Right to Decide,” organized by Mexico's Children's Rights Network.
In addition, the ability of parents to educate their children is not decided by sexual orientation but by principles such as respect and love, which sexually diverse people are capable of giving, she said. “There are the experts who have been calling for respect and there are studies and investigations that show precisely that (sexuality) is not the determining element,” Patiño said.
Rather than evaluating the implications of same-gender couples adopting, the focus should be shifted on how parents in general are educating their children amid high levels of family violence, Patiño said.
Gerardo Sauri Suárez, a spokesman from the capital's Human Rights Commission (CDHDF), said that the commission has established its position, arguing that the Legislative Assembly (which voted last month to legalize same-gender marriage, 39-20) has the authority on this topic.
“We would hope that (the PGR's appeal to the Supreme Court) has the same result as abortion,” Sauri said, regarding Mexico City's ruling in favor of abortion, which was appealed to the Supreme Court but upheld. |
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