Minister Aurore Bergé announces the establishment of community service for “failing parents”

The Minister of Solidarity and Families also announced the creation of a commission to “meet the challenges of parenthood”.

The Minister of Solidarity and Families, Aurore Bergé, announced on Sunday December 10 in an interview with La Tribune Sunday the establishment of “community service for defaulting parents”. She also wants to set up “the payment of a financial contribution for parents of children guilty of damage to a victims’ association and a fine for parents who do not appear at hearings which concern their children”.

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The Minister of Solidarity and Families also announced the creation, as of Monday, of“a scientific commission, co-chaired by Serge Hefez [pédopsychiatre] and Hélène Roques [autrice de Sauvons nos enfants]“with “demographers, magistrates, child psychiatrists, philosophers”. This commission must make it possible to “meeting the challenges of parenthood”, according to the minister.

“Authority to be restored”

The weekly specifies that the main avenues for reflection should concern options for supporting overwhelmed parents, resolving family conflicts, dealing with violence and young people’s addictions.

“I have one certainty: we cannot do without parents, nor do without them, nor against them,” says Aurore Bergé, who begins “a parenting tour of France” on Monday, with a first stop near Angers. “There is clearly an issue of authority to be restored, it is neither corny nor reactionary to say so,” she says. Evoking “these mothers going out into the street in the evening to pick up their children and put them back on the right path” during the riots at the end of June, Aurore Bergé believes that “we cannot focus on parenting only in the face of crises”.