Civil status forms, which make it possible to claim an identity card or a passport, will be modified to allow homoparental families to be included from March 2022, the Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa announced on Friday November 12. .
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Concretely, the paper and web forms necessary for any request for identity papers will no longer automatically bear the mention father and mother. The applicant will now have "
a box to check to specify whether it is the father or the mother
", explained Marlène Schiappa, during a ceremony in Paris to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Flag association, which federates LGBT police and gendarmes. "
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,
" continued the minister, ensuring that "
allow all families to being considered is a government priority
”.
The update of these forms is due to take effect in March 2022, she announced.
"
We welcome this decision that we have been waiting for a long time
", reacted to AFP the president of the Association of Homoparental Families, Alexandre Urwicz.
"
We simply regret that this change comes in 2022 and that it took eight years to update the forms
", because homoparental adoption is possible since the law on marriage for all in 2013, he recalls.
"It's up to the public service to adapt"
According to the Association Des Familles Homoparentales, only a handful of cities like Paris, Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne or Villeurbanne have so far modified their identity card application forms to make them inclusive. The Ministry of the Interior had "
not made any adaptation of its administrative forms
", which required "
to cross out references to father or mother
", explains Alexandre Urwicz. "
It was violent not being able to integrate your own family,
" he said. "
It is not for the citizen to adapt to the administration to try to fit into boxes, it is for the public service to adapt
".
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The solution adopted for the new forms "
is the right one to really include everyone
", he stressed.
“
We didn't want parent 1 and parent 2 mentions, which would symbolically remove their parents from the other children.
"
