Disappearance Of The Terms "Father" And "Mother" From The National Education Forms

Case information
Incident date
Country
France
Place
Paris
Categories
  • Government Restrictions
Attack Against
  • Morals
Perpetrator / Motive Indicators
  • Political
Societal Sphere
  • Education
  • Governmental
Religious Freedom / Discrimination
  • Parental Rights and Education
  • Exclusion (of individuals or ideas)
Place of Incident
  • School
Reported to Police
  • No
Response of Local Authorities
  • Unknown
Symbolic image; not a photograph of the reported incident.Image credit: Volodymyr Hryshchenko on Unsplash

On the 12th February, the National Assembly in France adopted the new usage of the terms "Parent 1" and "Parent 2" instead of "Mother" and "Father" to reflect diversity in the families. The idea of the new law is to embrace diversity in familiar settings. The deputy Jennifer de Temmerman called the traditional social and family models outdated. This law was criticized by the minister of Education, the deputy Xavier Breton and the movement Manif Pour Tous, calling it "politically correct but not real".

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