Place education at the heart of the campaign, outline ways of improving Catholic education and schools in general. This is the approach of the Association of parents of free education students (Apel), which publishes at the beginning of February a series of proposals for presidential candidates, as it had already done in 2017. → REREAD. […]
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A judge validates the sharing of parental authority between four LGBT parents
On January 7, the Paris court issued two judgments that could cause a lot of ink to flow, since they open up the highly thorny debate on the possible recognition of families with multiple parents. The family affairs judge has, in fact, validated a request for delegation sharing of parental authority between four adults. The […]
Welcoming your baby into a blended family
” For now, everything is okay. Our ex-spouses are discreet, the children happy, the grandparents euphoric. Everyone is looking forward to the baby’s arrival. But we’ll see after the birth, in a few days.”, says Virginia, 36, mother of a child from a previous union and mother-in-law of a teenager. → READ. Blended siblings, becoming […]
Education: appropriating the notion of time, a real challenge for the child
“When you were little, what were the dinosaurs like? » What parent or grandparent has never heard this type of question? Such childish words say with flavor how difficult it is to acquire the notion of time. “She is not innate. Moreover, it is not obvious to us adults. emphasizes the chronobiologist Claire Leconte, quoting […]
Adoption: the new composition of family councils worries
It all started in 2018, on the airwaves of France Bleu. That day, the head of the adoption department of the Seine-Maritime department created an uproar. She explains that, in her department, homosexual couples cannot claim to adopt healthy children, for lack of correspondence. “to the required criteria”. And that they must necessarily accommodate children […]
Matching your rhythms, a challenge for the couple
With her belly just rounded, Emma (1) relishes her new status as a pregnant woman. She wanted this baby with her companion, but first they had to tune their rhythms. “We were very out of step for a long time, she said, measuring the distance traveled. When we met, I was 26 years old, he […]
On New Year’s Eve, the very first New Year’s Eve without his parents
At the end of the year under Covid, New Year’s Eve will be celebrated at a minimum. No large gatherings, no apartments overloaded with revelers … In short, nothing a priori to stick to the image of Épinal on a New Year’s Eve or something to burn memories for life. Yet young teens are looking […]
Children in care: how to recreate the bond between brothers and sisters
Enable children in care to get to know their brothers and sisters, and to grow up with them. This concern is at the heart of the bill on child protection examined, this Tuesday, December 14, in the Senate. Article 2b states as well as “The child is welcomed with his brothers and sisters (…), unless […]
Parents who are sometimes very invested in their children’s studies
When you are a parent, it is for life, as we say. “When you are a parent of a student, you remain so beyond the child’s 18 years old”, prolongs Gilles Demarquet, president of Apel. His association, essential in Catholic establishments of the first and second degree, is also gradually investing the field of higher […]
Being present but not too much, the delicate exercise of parents of young adults
“When I’m 18, I’ll do what I want…” This phrase, as old as the world, still runs through the minds of many teenagers and sometimes gets involved in the discussion, between frustration and challenge. However, very often, when the official hour of majority strikes, we are far from the great upheaval in relations with parents. […]