translated from Spanish: PRODEMU calls on parents to fulfill their role 365 days a year

In the days leading up to the celebration, the second in the pandemic on Father’s Day, PRODEMU calls for recognition of those who are responsible for the care and upbringing of their sons and daughters, who took on the challenges in education due to the closure of schools and the learnings that the pandemic brought with it. Mostly young, new fatherhoods or changes in the role of fathers, allows them to engage with their sons and daughters at more affective and close levels than they did with their own parents, current grandparents of those sons and daughters. On the contrary, in households where co-responsibility is not present, care tasks are performed only by women, the parents being mere spectators of the family tasks and dynamics that occur within the home. In addition, with the pandemic, households have become the space where everything happens: education, socialization and productive work; this has exacerbated the crisis of care, generating an overload in women with consequences for their mental health. At PRODEMU, The Foundation for the Promotion and Development of Women, we seek to increase women’s autonomy through a process of personal empowerment. In this process, it is essential to promote communication, good treatment, co-responsibility within the family and strengthen parental skills. “Parents understand that they are also part of the development of their sons and daughters, that play, affection and dialogue are indispensable for children to grow up happy, safe and secure, so their contribution is not a help, but that parenthood is a job 365 days a year” , said the national director of PRODEMU Paola Diez Berliner.However, there are many parents who do not comply with that or with the payment of alimony, that is why there is the National Registry of Pension Debtors, which was approved on June 2 in the Chamber of Deputies. Alimony is a right of children up to the age of 21, and 28 years in case they are studying, to receive from the parent who does not have personal care (care). Until before this project, this issue was considered as a private problem between two individuals (father and mother) leaving aside that it is about the rights of children to receive what they need for their food, studies and shelter. The delivery of 10% of the social security funds showed a hidden side of this reality within many families. According to figures from the Judiciary, between 28 and 31 July last year, more than 210 thousand such requests arrived. This shows that the significant percentage of unpaid alimony affects the economic reality of the same number of women, leading us to the problem of the feminization of poverty. The creation of this registry will articulate a system of measures and disabilities for those debtor parents, which will stimulate a more collaborative attitude on the part of the maintenance debtor and in the future, a cultural change that will have the consequence of alleviating the current burden of mothers, not only in sustaining the lives of their sons and daughters , but also in the collection process that includes costs for legal representation that, with this registration, also happens to assume the debtor parent. “We believe that this law seeks to promote the principle of co-responsibility of fathers and mothers in relation to the care of children, strengthen the role of the State in ensuring the payment of pensions and the elimination of economic violence for food.” Beyond the law, cultural change is happening and new generations have the opportunity to be different, to be involved and in relationships of equality. Sharing responsibilities in a respectful and non-violent way is the best way to create that protective environment in the home that all children deserve. “We seek that in the coming years both the celebrations of Mother’s Day, father’s day or families, include these reflections that will allow us to advance in eliminating the historical inequalities between men and women,” concluded Paola Diez.



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