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A single individual filed a grievance Thursday for discrimination in adoption procedures in Paris, as a result of his household state of affairs is, based on him, invoked by the prefecture to refuse him to undertake a French youngster, his lawyer mentioned, reigniting the controversy over discrimination for adoption in France.
For greater than ten years, Hédi Sfaxi’s case has by no means been chosen for the adoption of a French youngster. This 55-year-old Parisian however meets the mandatory reception circumstances, and is the daddy of a Vietnamese youngster whom he adopted in 2006.
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“It’s not worth asking for French children”
“I’ve always been told since that time: it’s not worth asking for French children,” Hédi Sfaxi advised AFP. In accordance with him, “the files of single people are not presented by the prefecture to family councils”, the collegial our bodies whose opinion is decisive in selecting a household with one youngster.
A follow which might have been confirmed to him throughout a gathering with the Departmental Route of Social Cohesion (DDCS) of Paris in 2019. “The director told me that this practice + was a precedent +,” says Hédi Sfaxi.
Echoing the primary discriminations denounced
His grievance, addressed to the Paris prosecutor’s workplace for “discrimination on the grounds of family status”, echoes an argument over the discrimination suffered throughout adoption procedures by gay {couples} and single folks.
In March 2019, the Normal Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas) had pinpointed adoption practices in Seine-Maritime in a report, admitting that “there was a tacit rule favoring heteroparental couples” on this division.
On this similar report, which prompted the Rouen prosecutor’s workplace to open a judicial investigation initially of June, the Igas burdened that “the exclusion of single people from national adoption would be commonly practiced in a majority of family councils in France”.
Regardless of the adoption by the federal government of a code of ethics for household councils, “this discrimination exists throughout France, not only in Paris, or in Seine-Maritime”, considers Hédi Sfaxi.
File a grievance with “the hope that things will change”
Supported by the Cease Homophobie and Mousse associations, he lodges a grievance with “the hope that things will change and that preconceived ideas so that single people and same-sex couples do not adopt fall.” “This action is part of a national movement to denounce this discrimination,” his lawyer, Etienne Deshoulières, confirmed to AFP.
“The problem is that when we talk about the best interests of the child, we can put in what we want (…) and in particular homophobic reflections, opposed to homoparentality or single people”, he added, denouncing the arguments based on which the youngsters adopted by these households may expertise it as “a trauma”.