In particular, the president candidate promised the 50% increase in the family support allowance for single mothers in the event of a victory in the presidential election.
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This is a lesson in the crisis of “yellow vests” that manifestly successful Emmanuel Macron. In April 2019, at the end of the great debate held in response to the claims expressed during this massive protest movement, the head of state had announced measures to improve the daily life of single mothers. It was then aimed at combating unpaid food pensions, reforming their recovery system, obviously failing.
Three years later, the president candidate for his re-election has once again addressed the two million single-parent families – 82% of whom are led by women. “I really want to make very concrete progress for single-parent families, and in particular single mothers,” he said at the presentation press conference of his program on Thursday, March 17, promising them “several reforms very important “.
The first, already mentioned on January 6 at the Congress of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, consists of the creation of a “right to the opposable childcare”. An idea from the Nordic countries, based on a compensation mechanism in the event of absence of a custody solution, which included in a report submitted to the government in October 2021, at the Family Conference.
“Isolated measurements”
The creation of such a device will concern “all families”, unlike the other two measures set out on Thursday, which specifically intended for single mothers. This is the extension of the free choice of child care for children from 6 to 12 years of these families, while this partial financial assistance stops for others to the sixth anniversary. Another measure announced in case of New Fivennial of Emmanuel Macron: the 50% increase in the family support allowance paid under the parent whoever elevates a child, “by 116 euros to 174 euros per child”.
This last measure is one of the demands of family associations, including the union federation of single-parent families. Attached by Le Monde, its Secretary General, Cathy Ngangue, concedes that it “meets [his] expectations”, but insists on the need to “take into consideration in a global way” all the brakes encountered by single-parent families on a daily basis , of which 35% work part-time and 15% are unemployed. Otherwise, “these isolated measurements will only be bandages on fractures,” warns the spokesperson. A criticism that is singularly echoed with that of feminist associations on the fight against domestic violence and in favor of equality. On this component, Emmanuel Macron simply announced his intention to remember the struggle for equality between women and men the great cause of his five-year, in case of re-election, without more precision.