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The first European Convention on adoption was signed on April 24, 1967 from 16 countries of the European Union and determined the basic principles in children adoption within the country and abroad, which would become part of the internal law of these countries. As a fundamental principle of this convention we can mention the legal status that it gives to the adopted child, by making him/her equal to the other children of the adopting family. This convention has been signed by 47 states of the European Council. This council has been working for more than 40 years to find balance in between policies, adoption standards and common practices within its member states regarding the filed related to family [1, 11].

Since in ancient times, in all human cultures, children transfered from biological parents to parents that want them to create family, for political alliances, for inheritance, for a future marriage, or to care for elderly parents. The practice of adoption was fairly common in different places and periods. Adoption is mention on Bible and Quran. Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Babylonians had adoption systems.

According to the Albanian Constitution the environmental law is not specifically granted as a fundamental right, consequently and the right of claim in case of environmental damage and the issues that are related with the environment are not in a constitutional level. The samples that are offered are Italy, France, Portugal, Spain etc. The raise in a constitutional level would guarantee the fundamental right to protect health and life quality, also the environment, but also as well approximate the domestic legislation with that community of Aquis Communautaire, as a future part of the Europian Union.

In this paper we aim to discuss the best interest of the child as one of the one of the key principles and priorities to international and domestic law. The purpose of this study is to treat the legal aspect for best interest of the child especially related to adoption institute and on the possibility of children's adoption by homosexuals, identification of the most critic cases that are related with it, and ongoing debates about the composition of the family, because more and more homosexuals aim to adopt a child therefore it is very important to clarify the criteria that have to be considered by courts in order to guaranty the best interest of the child.