Overview
- An online campaign on Change.org has topped 7,000 signatures in support of keeping the family together, according to ANSA and other outlets.
- Multiple reports indicate the decision could arrive as early as next week, with the court’s deadline set for the end of November.
- The family’s lawyer has submitted written testimonies and videos from acquaintances who say the children are happy, in good health and socially engaged.
- Parental authority was suspended after a 2024 mushroom-poisoning hospitalization and inspections that cited the absence of electricity, gas and indoor running water and no formal school path, though the children remain with their parents.
- The court-appointed special guardian recognized the family’s alternative lifestyle but emphasized that the minors’ best interests and Italy’s compulsory-education rules, including annual exams for home education, must guide the outcome.