{"id":5385,"date":"2026-03-28T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/?p=5385"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:13:34","slug":"single-dad-adopts-girl-with-down-syndrome-rejected-by-20-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/?p=5385","title":{"rendered":"Single dad adopts girl with Down syndrome rejected by 20 families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A young girl\u2019s fortunes have changed after she was rejected first by her mother and then by 20 potential adoptive families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story of&nbsp;Luca Trapanese\u2019s journey&nbsp;to adopting baby Alba has gone viral for several reasons, paramount of which may be the fact that social services don\u2019t often grant custody to a single, homosexual man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nevertheless, they made an exception in Luca\u2019s case \u2026 and we\u2019re so very happy they did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the&nbsp;BBC, 41-year-old Italian Luca published a book wherein he recounts his journey to becoming the father of Alba, a girl with Down syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a radio interview, Trapanese explained that his case is special because it \u201cdestroys stereotypes about fatherhood, religion and family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-813.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-813.png 512w, https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-813-240x300.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young girl\u2019s fortunes have changed after she was rejected first by her mother and then by 20 potential adoptive families. The story of&nbsp;Luca Trapanese\u2019s journey&nbsp;to adopting&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5387,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5385\/revisions\/5387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnowtrendi.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}