{"id":"dossiers/PL8228","title":"PL8228 — Réforme de l'adoption","type":"dossier","html":"<p>Bill 8228 (\"Réforme de l'adoption\"). The Chamber debated and voted it on 2 April 2025.</p>\n<p>Sittings: <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n076\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n076\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a></p>\n<h2>Debate</h2>\n<h3>2 April 2025 — <a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Fchildren-and-family\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/children-and-family\">Children, young people and family policy</a></h3>\n<p>The Chamber debated and voted the projet de loi 8228 reforming adoption in the Civil Code, opening adoption to unmarried couples, partners and single persons; the bill was adopted by 55 votes to none with 5 abstentions and the second constitutional vote was waived.</p>\n<p>Charles Weiler (CSV), stating the principle that adoption is the child's right to a family and not a person's right to a child:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Léif Kolleeginnen a Kolleegen, et muss een nach eng Kéier kloer soen: Eng Adoptioun ass kee Recht vun enger Persoun, e Kand ze hunn, mee d’Recht vum Kand, eng Famill ze hunn.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>Dear colleagues, it must be said clearly once again: an adoption is not a person's right to have a child, but the child's right to have a family.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fcharles-weiler\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/charles-weiler\">Charles Weiler</a>, CSV</p>\n<p>Carole Hartmann (DP), presenting the bill as bringing the law into line with today's realities:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mat dësem Gesetzesprojet passe mir also den Text de Realitéite vun haut un an droen domadder dozou bäi, Lëtzebuerg als Land gesellschaftspolitesch nach méi modern ze maachen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>With this bill we therefore adapt the text to the realities of today and so help to make Luxembourg an even more socially modern country.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fcarole-hartmann\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/carole-hartmann\">Carole Hartmann</a>, DP</p>\n<p>Dan Hardy (ADR), objecting that opening adoption to single persons creates situations with a very high poverty risk:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Wa mer d’Adoptioun also fir Eenzelpersounen opmaachen, bedeit dat och, datt mir bewosst Situatioune fërderen a schafen, bei deenen den Aarmutsrisiko immens héich ass.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>So if we open adoption to single persons, that also means that we deliberately promote and create situations in which the poverty risk is very high.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2025-04-02-n077\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2025-04-02-n077\">Sitting of 2 April 2025</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fdan-hardy\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/dan-hardy\">Dan Hardy</a>, ADR</p>\n<h2>Votes</h2>\n<h3>Main vote: PL 8228 - Réforme de l'adoption</h3>\n<p>2 April 2025 — Premier vote constitutionnel.</p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Party</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">For</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Against</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Abstain</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fcsv\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/csv\">CSV</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">21</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">14</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">12</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fadr\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/adr\">ADR</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">5</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-greng\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-greng\">déi gréng</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">4</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fpiraten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/piraten\">Piraten</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-lenk\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-lenk\">déi Lénk</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>55</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>5</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>\n<p>No deputy voted against the majority of their party in this vote.</p>"}