Italy's constitutional court has ruled that the non-biological mother in a same-sex union is entitled to paternity leave, equating her role with that of the father and therefore entitled to bonding time with a newborn.
The court found on Monday that a 2001 decree on parental leave was unconstitutional because it didn’t recognise that the non-biological mother in a lesbian civil union was also entitled to Italy's mandatory 10-day paternity leave.
