In an interview with the magazine She published this Wednesday, May 8, Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to launch a debate on the role of parents. In particular, he wishes to establish a “visiting duty” for fathers in single-parent families.
With supporting figures, the Head of State recalls that “85% of single-parent families, which number 1.7 million in France, are women.” And Emmanuel Macron added: “When there is a father, he must exercise all his duties and the mother, when she is in this situation, can demand regular visits. »
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“It’s a duty to be a parent”
The President mentions, among other things, the need for fathers to participate in meetings between parents and teachers and to be ” stakeholder “ of the child’s education.
He put forward the idea of setting up a “duty to visit, a duty to support children until they reach adulthood […] It is a duty to be parents and it is a duty that does not end at the moment of divorce or separation.”
Emmanuel Macron considers that“including for the child, it’s better. Because a child who never sees his father is a child who feels abandoned” And “whose emotional and educational development is not the same”.
A bill from an LR deputy
The deputy for Meurthe-et-Moselle, Thibault Bazin (Les Républicains), has tabled a bill to this effect. It aims to transform the “right of visitation and accommodation” into a “duty of visitation and accommodation of the child” for the parent not living with the child.
The text provides for a prison sentence of one year and a fine of €15,000 if this visiting duty is not respected.
