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 checkbox to specify whether it is the father or the mother.
Civil status forms, which allow you to claim an identity card or passport, will be changed to allow homoparental families to be included from March 2022, announced this Friday the Minister for Citizenship Marlène Schiappa.
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 checkbox 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 mothers or two dads, or that you are two mothers and two dads”, continued the minister, ensuring that “allow all families to to be considered is a priority of the government “.
Updated in March 2022
The update of these forms is due to take effect in March 2022, she announced.
“We welcome this long-awaited decision,” reacted to AFP the president of Homoparental Families Association, 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.
According to the Association Des Familles Homoparentales, only a handful of cities like Paris, Strasbourg, Saint-Étienne 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”. The solution adopted for the new forms “is the right one to really include everyone”, he stressed. “We didn’t want ‘parent 1’ and ‘parent2’, which would symbolically take their parents away from the other children.”
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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