In 1987, Jean-Jacques Goldman sang
She Made a Baby All Alone, a
hymn to the courage of a single mother who "
runs, runs all day
".
In 2009, in
50 percent,
rapper Orelsan mocked a woman who "
has taken up bad habits like not telling her boyfriends when she quits the pill
" and comes to ask for help "
to get out of her sad plight.
": A lonely pregnancy.
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Two eras, two looks on the solo mother.
In the meantime, the legislation has given her a power and therefore a power of nuisance: since 2005, she can, unconditionally, bring an action for paternity in the name of her child.
The designated man must undergo a DNA test.
If it is positive, he must pay alimony and count the child among his heirs.
Each year, hundreds of procedures are opened.
The Ministry of Justice counted 1211 in 2010, 899 in 2018. Since she can get money, the solo mother is no longer always the courageous, she can be the greedy, the manipulator.
When there are three
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