Yesterday, the Federal Council decided that fathers and their children will have to wait even longer for equal rights!
Instead of finally bringing the long-overdue proposal to reform joint parental custody to parliament, the Federal Council, in its new composition, has decided to postpone this proposal and instead link it to conditions regarding child support. In short, fathers are expected to pay if they want equal rights.
This decision is scandalous and deeply concerning. It demonstrates once again that in this country, the well-being of the child is synonymous with the financial well-being of the mother. Whether a child has a father or not, whether the child is allowed to have a relationship with that father or not, is apparently irrelevant to the legislature; the main thing is that the mother and child receive enough money to live on from somewhere. If necessary, even to the point where the child's father is left with less than the minimum subsistence level. This is precisely the aim of the current demand: to allow the father's subsistence level to be undercut in cases of financial hardship.
Read the latest press release from the Swiss Association for Shared Parenting GeCoBi