But when you consider that the number of applications for the protection of family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood in the first half of this year compared to last year has almost doubled, it becomes clear why Tatiana Moskalkova gathered last Friday a roundtable on the rights and responsibilities of fathers.
“We take almost Turgenevskaya, – said Tatyana Moskalkova, starting a conversation, fathers and children.” Recalling the President’s words that the family is the “Foundation,” and stressing that the principles of equality of rights and duties of parents towards children is enshrined in the Russian family legislation and consistent with international standards as reflected in the UN Convention on the rights of the child, Tatiana Moskalkova spoke about the problems of the “institution of fatherhood” in Russia.
credii of the main problems is still the alimony. 70 percent of the complaints in this regard come to the Ombudsman from women. This is due to the fact that after divorce minor children often remain to live with his mother.
At the end of 2019, the amount of debt Russians on the alimony amounted to 152 billion rubles. Even in 2015, to address this issue, the Ombudsman recommended that the government consider creating a special alimony Fund to provide financial support to children who are not receiving payments from irresponsible parents. Autumn in the upper house of Parliament should pass hearings on this question. But suffer not only single mothers but also single fathers with children. According to Tatyana Moskalkova, legislation does not always provide them with support comparable to support single mothers. There are cases of difficulties in obtaining by a single father family (parent) capital. “Normative legal acts, for example, include the possibility of obtaining maternity capital fathers, alone raising two or more children, mothers with foreign citizenship died”, – said Tatyana Moskalkova, indicating that from 2017 to 2019 was taken 138 decisions to refuse to issue such certificates. Because single fathers today often find themselves in a no less difficult circumstances than single mothers, the protection of their rights remain in the sphere of close attention of the Ombudsman and her colleagues in the regions. Moskalkova cited the work of the Commissioner for human rights in Dagestan, to protect residents of the city of Khasavyurt, a lonely father with dependent underage children and not working because of the need to care for them. Regional Commissioner intervened, and the arrears of wages alone to the father was paid.
