The parenting committee gave this Thursday to the Minister of Families Catherine Vautrin her report made up of 40 proposals, aimed at restoring a “benevolent authority” and to support the most vulnerable parents.
In December 2023, the Minister of Solidarity and Families, Aurore Bergé announced the creation of a scientific commission co-chaired by the child psychiatrist Serge Hefez and the specialist in questions of youth Hélène Roques, accompanied by demographers, magistrates and philosophers. The objective: to provide concrete proposals to “meet the challenges of parenting”.
This Thursday, February 13, 2025, the parenting commission rendered its report to the current Minister of Families, Catherine Vautrin, in which she advocates a company at “children” and a dialogue “to parents” in order to Restore a “benevolent authority” and support the parents most in difficulty. After leading a hundred hearings, the experts issued 40 proposals.
Four additional half-days per year for employees?
First of all, and this is one of the main measures proposed by the parenting committee: an overhaul of the leave system to try to improve its benefits and give them new functions, in particular help for parents. This is why, the specialists recommend – based on the “sick children” leave system – to establish for employees four half -days per year to participate meetings with teachers for “a better knowledge of expectations and Reciprocal constraints “, can be read. They also recommend extending the leave of “caregivers” to dropping out of school situations, to allow better professional and personal life to be reconciled.
Among the proposals issued by the parenting commission also include the creation of a green number “parents in distress” to collect and guide the parents’ requests, the densification of the reception places for parents-child in the territory, or a policy Housing adapted to “the evolution of families (single-parent for example) and different forms of co-parents”.
“Involve fathers more in the education of children”
But that’s not all, it also proposes the establishment of a “right to parenting” in the code of social action and families so that parents are “clearly subject to obligations”, by strengthening their Sensation of responsibility for the child, while “benefiting from a certain number of rights”. Specifically for fathers, the report offers paritarism for the lists of representatives of parents of students to the board of directors of schools. The objective is “to further involve fathers in the education of children”.
From a tax point of view, the fifteen specialists behind the report recommends making the mention of the disability of one of the parents in the tax declaration possible. “Which, subject to a minimum incapacity rate, would allow the opening of a right to a flat -rate social service in order to help them in their educational mission”, always with an objective of helping the poorest.
In short, “It is a question of giving the necessary tools to the parents to build this structuring and benevolent authority and, if necessary, to help them restore it or to confirm it, thanks to the intervention of the various actors in parenting. ” precise qIt is “necessary to modify the traditional perspective of the policy of support for parenting”. From now on, in charge of the government to validate or not, the recommendations made by the parenting committee.