New boxes “will indicate, when this is the case, that you have two mothers or two dads,” said Minister Delegate Marlène Schiappa, Friday.
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Something new for your identity card or passport requests. Civil status forms will be modified to allow homoparental families to be included from March 2022, announced the Minister for Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa, on Friday, November 12.
Concretely, the paper and web forms necessary for any request for identity papers will no longer automatically bear the words “father” and “mother”. The applicant will now have “a checkbox to specify whether it is the father or the mother”, explained the minister. “This will indicate, when this is the case, that you have two moms or two dads, or that you are two moms and two dads.”
“We welcome this long-awaited decision, reacted the Association of homoparental families. We just regret that this change comes in 2022 and that it took eight years to update forms. “ Homoparental adoption has been possible since the law on marriage for all in 2013, she recalls. According to the association, only a handful of cities like Paris, Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne or Villeurbanne had so far modified their identity card application forms to include homoparental families.