Parents are too old to keep child, court rules

A COUPLE who conceived through IVF treatment after being repeatedly told they could not adopt because of their age have been ordered to give up their child because they cannot look after her.

Italian judges ruled that librarian Gabriella De Ambrosis, 57, and her retired husband Luigi, 70, should have their 18-month-old child Viola taken away from them due to concerns over the girl’s future.

The court in the northern Italian city of Turin said the couple suffered from “a narcissistic need to have a child” and showed “indifference with regard to the child’s perspective” in later years.