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# Czech court annouce same-sex partnership adoption decision
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/czechs-same-sex-partnership-adoption-decision/
- Published: 2016-07-04T09:33:06.000Z
- Updated: 2016-07-04T09:43:41.000Z
- Description: The Network of European LGBTIQ Families Associations (NELFA) welcomes recent decision by the Czech Constitutional Court to extend the right to apply for adoption to individuals in same-sex registered partnerships.
- Author: Alice Blezard
- Tags: In The South, News

## The Network of European LGBTIQ Families Associations (NELFA) welcomes recent decision by the Czech Constitutional Court to extend the right to apply for adoption to individuals in same-sex registered partnerships.

![nelfa Q_AISBL_LGBTQI_2016](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/web-600-3.jpg)

The Court’s argumentation, following a lawsuit brought by a gay man in a registered partnership, stated that the previous ban was discriminatory because a gay man outside a registered partnership met the requirements to apply to adopt, but was denied the same possibility once he entered a partnership. However, according to the ruling registered partners will not be able to apply to adopt jointly.

![Maria von Känel](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/web-600-4.jpg)

Maria von Känel

**Maria von Känel, President of the Board of NELFA, said:** *“The decision to lift the ban on adoption against individuals in same-sex registered partnerships is a just decision, and one that recognises what experts have been saying all this time, that a person’s sexual orientation is not a criterion of good parenting. The capacity to be a good parent is linked to a person’s ability to love and educate a child, as well as to a person’s reliability. The Czech authorities should go much further and allow registered partners to apply for adoption jointly; only then will all legal discrimination be erased”.*

NELFA is the European platform of LGBTIQ families associations, bringing together LGBTI parents and parents-to-be from all over Europe. NELFA currently represents 27 organisations in 18 European countries with more than 25 500 members. NELFA is a member of ILGA-Europe and Transgender Europe.

**For more information about NELFA, [CLICK HERE:](http://www.nelfa.org/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**