They denounce that only those who have at least two children will be able to compare themselves to the numerous
The Council of Ministers will give the green light this Tuesday to the new regulations
The Federation of Single Mothers Associations (FAMS) and the Association of Single Mothers by Choice (MSPE) have warned that 70% of single parent families they can stay “unprotected” in the family law, since this equates to numerous only single-parents who have with two or more children. Thus, although they consider that the law promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights “corrects discrimination from 14 years ago”, they regret that the new regulation “does not establish a protective framework for all single-parent families”. However, they specify that they will wait to see the full text of the law, which will be approved this Tuesday in the Minister council.
“We don’t know the text yet but we don’t like what the news says too much because it only talks about recognition of large families single parent with 2 children, but this is a correction of a discrimination that comes from 2008 – when widows with two children began to be considered large families but not single-parent families–. We’re glad this is corrected, but what about the 70% single-parent families who have just a creature at your expense? They are left completely unprotected,” said the president of the Federation of Associations of Single Mothers, Carmen Flores, in statements to Europa Press.
For this reason, although they celebrate that the law has been “unblocked”, the associations of single mothers warn that the protection framework that it includes for their families is “totally insufficient”. In this sense, they also regret that the five-day permit for cohabiting care, announced in the Family Law, is not duplicated for single-parent families.
“This law that comes in theory to solve, to equalize rights between the different family models in society, discriminates against our boys and girls,” criticized the president of the Association of Single Mothers by Choice, Miriam Tormo, in statements to Europe Press.
The associations warn that single-parent families start from a situation of “inequality” in the labor, fiscal, aid sphere, something that is added to the “difficulty of raising a child alone” because there is “a single source of household income”.
As Tormo recalls, 54% of single-parent households in Spain are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, a figure that “doubles that of two-parent families” and which has increased five points over the previous year. Therefore, they hoped that the law would establish a framework that would protect them from falling into poverty.
“It is unheard of that with these poverty data, the only measure of depth is to correct a discrimination that has been dragging on for 14 years,” the president of MSPE has abounded. In any case, the associations of single mothers do not give up and hope to improve the text of the law during its parliamentary process.
The numerous denounce ideological charge
For its part, the Spanish Federation of Large Families (FEFN) has criticized that the Family Law has “a great ideological burden” and has criticized that the Government “gets lost in ideological debates instead of dedicating itself to doing important things for families and for society.”
Thus, in the absence of knowing the full text of the law, the FEFN hopes that the new regulation meets the demands made by numerous “families that have more children than average and that must be supported in fair compensation for the contribution they do to society”.
In this sense, the FEFN has specified that many of them are also “families with only one parent or in which there is an immigrant, people with disabilities, who have lived abroad, made up of couples with children from previous unions, multiple births, etc. “.
For this reason, it considers the classification into 16 types of family “absurd” that the law includes, according to what the ABC newspaper has advanced this Friday. “It seems wrong to us that the law already begins by saying that the family does not exist, but families and justifies it in that catalog of situations that border on the absurd, such as including the returned, intercultural, transnational or two-parent family as a type of family” , has valued the president of the FEFN, José Manuel Trigo.
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In his opinion, being an immigrant, young, a single mother, having children with multiple births or having lived a year outside the country are situations that are already “legally and socially recognized and protected” when appropriate but “they are not a type of family.”
The FEFN also considers it “incredible that, from what has transpired, in a family law the word birth rate is barely mentioned when a serious drop in the number of births is dragging on.”