Tired of conversations that don’t end and sometimes don’t happen while their kids are growing up, single mothers association They are raising their voices again. “Contrary to what was announced by the Government on the occasion of the submission of the consensus of the general budgets of the 2023 State, it continues its course without being included in the transaction. concrete measures to correct discrimination In a strong statement made to the public this week, they draw attention to the fact that our families are alive. Federation of Single Mothers Associations (FAMS) and Single Mothers by Choice Association (MSPE) gathered in a manifesto. 50+ assets included in the preliminary bill”, they angrily denounce.
And many times they put a truth on the table invisible: “More lack of decision concrete and specific protecting our group with equality plunge into the void we suffer; most 54 percent of single-parent families are at risk povertyAccording to data from the INE, data doubling the equivalent in two-parent families—they state—was; situations involving inequality and poverty in boys and girls that result only from family structure“.
A framework regulation regarding the processing of family law, which should serve family law to reverse the different injustices suffered by all non-traditional families, From the associations of single-parent families, for now “the text appears to contain only an agreement for our group: Consider single-parent families as extended families with two dependent minors, a claim we’ve been making for 14 years”, they resent the development of the pyrus.
“In these years of defending our rights, there have been several occasions when the Government has announced that this discrimination will be corrected soon. hasn’t happened yet” underlined. “If this information is confirmed, lamilias law of the future would be Disregarding the authority of the October 2020 Senate, Establishing the basis of the arrangement of our family model, which is equal to the extended family model from the first child, and special measures based on equality and social responsibilityLeaving 70% of single-parent families unprotected,” they continue in a joint statement signed by the two main single mothers’ associations.
spokespersons single parent families they insist family law still has no other treaties that correct inequalities those who suffer from the two-parent family model; as on personal income tax or on maternity, foster or adoption, nursing or sick leave so that they can double their time for boys and girlsas they have argued over the years in meetings, negotiations and even in court.
There are hundreds of women who have decided to take the state to court for harm suffered by two-parent children. 32 weeks home care and children of single-parent families continue at 16. Moreover, on the one hand, their legal struggle against a State that makes public statements proving that they are right, on the other hand, He will certainly appeal all fines won.
They underscore all this, despite “up to 12 references to single-parent families due to risk situations and vulnerability factor” in the report on the impact of general government budgets on families, childhood and adolescence.
gender inequality
Study ‘Mothers and point; The invisible reality of single parenthood in Spain: from social apps to mothers’ voicescoordinated by Violeta Cruz Published a few years ago. FAMS points unemployment, poverty and discriminatory responses as the main reasons that make single-parent families vulnerable.
same report, Severe financial deprivation of single-parent households affects 12.4%. “explanations feminization of poverty and causes of differential impoverishment of female-headed single-parent households How does gender inequality intersect? work, family and political spheres. Poverty and risk of exclusion are not only the result of income deprivation, but also a constellation of nonexistent public policies Recognition and about equitable protection of family diversity. They are a result lack of economic and social investment“, concludes the researcher in this 2019 study.