Who may become an adopting parent?

The obtention of a suitability certificate to have access to adopting fatherhood/motherhood is in our legislation, as well as in international legislation, an essential requirement. In this way, it aims to guarantee to the homeless young the attention and the care of a true family, trying to prevent people with very conflictive psychological or emotional situations from taking the responsibility of a child due to the harm such a relationship could cause him/her. The zeal of the Administration, when it aims at defending the rights of the children is easy to justify. Nevertheless, still some voices, among the candidates to become adopting parents rise to ask who selects the person responsible for the selection, what professional experience is required of her/him, under what criteria a person is considered suitable or non suitable for adoption and in reality how wide is the gap between professional zeal in favour of the minor and the unfair obstruction of a possible adoption.