José María Muscari told what the path to becoming Lucio’s father was like

José María Muscari (47) was a guest at Having lunch with Juana (El Trece, Sunday at 1.45pm) and revealed the details of the adoption process who lived to become Lucio’s father.

Last week the theater director announced that he had adopted a 15-year-old teenager from Corrientes and today on Juana Viale’s program he told more about what the experience was like.

“It’s a process that’s been in my head for many years.I’ve been talking about adoption for 20 years, but for a long time I was unaware that adoption is adopting a child,” Muscari explained.

In this sense, he said that broadening the age range of the research helped him: “I started returning to the topic some time ago.”a group called Adopt older childrenYES and I began to see that there are other options.

“Within the adoption mechanism, If you extend the age of the person you want to adopt, many more possibilities appear of the prejudice that people have that the process will be long and difficult,” he said.

“The truth is that In my case it was very smooth“, he specified regarding his personal experience with the adoption process of the young man who now lives with him.

How José María Muscari learned the story of Lucio, the teenager he adopted

Juana Viale asked the new father how he came across the case of this young man who was looking for a family: “My story with Lucio is truly magical, three months ago I was traveling with a friend and I saw a viral video of him, on the news, telling his story, and it shocked me a lot.“.

“I couldn’t explain to you what I felt, I was in the middle of an excursion in Berlin and I said: ‘He’s my son, I want him to be my son’ “My friend told me, ‘Well, let’s go back to the hotel and call,’” she said when she decided to apply as a possible adopter.

“Call to The court gave me instructions to register for the public tenderthat is, when a boy who is in the state of adoption does not present any correspondence with his search in the RUAGA (Single register of applicants for adoptive protection)”, he added.

Regarding the impact this call had, he expressed: “The judge decided to do something atypical make a video for a news program, that video went viral and Lucio’s situation changed radically, when I signed up there were 140 familiesYes, there are many.”

“I signed up a little desperately when I saw that there were 140, my prejudice appeared, I said: ‘No, I’m known, single parent, gay, I’m from Buenos Aires and he’s from Corrientes, it won’t happen’, but there was something in me that told me he was my son”, he said regarding the premonition of what he had regarding the young man.

He made this clear too the teenager took part in the elections: “When the children are older they participate in the decision of who will adopt them, so the judge has made a pre-selection and “Lucio chose me with the magic of not knowing me.”

Regarding the fact that Lucio did not know who José María Muscari was, he said: “He is a 15 year old boy who doesn’t watch television, I ask him who Juana (Viale) is, who Moria (Casán) is and he doesn’t know… he knows your grandmother and he wants to know her, but everything else, his head is just Duki.”