The national public administration granted a special leave for 100 days to a fathera worker at the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa), so that he can play the main role of caring for his newborn baby, in a resolution described as “historic” and “unprecedented” by official sources.
Gastón Pérsico, married to Nicolás, were the parents of Bautista.
Pérsico works as a certifying inspector in the dairy sector in the Food Safety and Quality Coordination of the Córdoba Regional Center and filed with Senasa a request to be granted a special license for birthsimilar to “maternity”, in order to develop full care for your baby in the first period of life.
The agency granted him the license.
The president of Senasa, Diana Guillén, said that “the decision to accompany and support this situation, which in another institutional context would not have been possible since the political and legal conditions were not present, is the result of a path that leads to expansion of rights and the debate on the perspective of gender and sexual diversity, among which an important milestone towards institutional opening is the sanction of Law 27,499, known as the Micaela Law”.
“It is my will to be a pioneer in terms of special licenses for births since love and care are manifested in different ways, all valid and respected”Persian Gaston
Gastón and Nicolás got married in 2017, and two years earlier they registered in the Single Registry of Aspiring Guardians for Adoptive Purposes.
In five years they were never contacted, so in 2020 they began to evaluate other alternatives.
They then opted for surrogacy, which is not regulated in the country, so They made a presentation in the Family Courts so that the baby is registered as their son.
And they obtained the judicial authorization.
“Bearing in mind that surrogacy is not regulated and that the birth licenses that are legally contemplated are not suitable for new types of family, the team of our Legal Affairs Department worked on the regulations based on the collective agreement of work for the public administration that recognizes for the case of adoption, 100 days of leave without distinction in the gender of the adopters”, explained the head of Senasa.
And he stressed that “the right of children was prioritized as a fundamental element to argue the decision we made. In this way, an exemplary opinion was achieved, which generates jurisprudence and that puts in the foreground the rights of the child to be cared for by their parents Guillen added.
Pérsico thanked Guillén, Senasa’s vice-president, Rodolfo Acerbi, the entire technical team of the Directorate of Legal Affairs and other sectors “who intervened and took care to analyze and listen to my request.”
“It is my will to be a pioneer in terms of special licenses for births since love and care are manifested in different ways, all valid and respected,” said the father, who is an agricultural engineer, graduated from the National University of the Silver with a postgraduate degree in Senior Management in Agribusiness and Food, who entered Senasa in 2014.
