Turin, no judges to the double surname for the children of gay couples: “We need a father and a mother”

They wanted their daughter to carry the surname of both parents, two mothers who had strongly wanted that pregnancy, carried on by one of them. Never Turin appellate judges denied this possibility considering that “it is not possible to legitimize in a generalized way the use of the techniques of assisted fertilization for the satisfaction of the parental aspirations of homosexual couples, since the family unit resulting from their application for the law must reproduce the model of family characterized by the presence of a mother and a father “.