We often allude to the term MaPá, with a degree of humor and irony, to refer to those who take on the dual responsibilities of being mothers and fathers; and although it also happens the other way around: parents who act in double constitution are the first ever in a Cuban society that is patriarchal, due to many female struggles, accompanied by presentations, events, master’s degrees and even doctorates Gender Matters that is developing on this archipelago in the academic and social fields.
I do not wish, nor is it the purpose of this comment, to enter into discussions about gender issues, as lynchings in that sense and over-criticism of the relevance of even the vowels we use when referring to the subject in question abound available. But I would like to comment on the MaPás in my own words in relation to the new Family Code that has recently come into force.
Parental responsibility states in an excerpt of the content of the Code:
The responsibility of mothers and fathers is strengthened and consolidated. The classic definition of parental authority is updated and perfected and replaced by the notion of parental responsibility. Other legal numbers are introduced such as:
Residual Parental Responsibilities.
– The temporary delegation of certain exercise powers in favor of third parties.
– Temporary custody and care.
– Protection in digital environments.
“Violence is regulated as an express reason for deprivation, suspensions, custody and custody bans, and communication restrictions.
“The figure of guardianship and joint custody is included and the right to family communication with other family members is strengthened.”
However, there are many parents in the family environment who limit their responsibility to paying maintenance and forget the term SAVE and CARE and everything that goes with it, which I think has to do with care in the upbringing and upbringing of children. share time with them, take responsibility for schoolwork, food, clothes, shoes, rest.
It’s as simple as teaching them to play balls, play spinning tops, build a kite and fly it…activities that can be considered unimportant but for a child they need the male figure.
The same goes for girls, for whom these games are not exclusive and who also need parents who feel accompanied and supported in life and their normal development.
If the mother is absent and I can now appear as a feminist, the same thing happens, and we can understand it in the recent Cuban novel Los hijos de Pandora, when the father does not know how to comb Amaya’s hair in the mother’s absence.
I believe that society, beyond a new family code that must be studied in detail by everyone, must recognize this phenomenon of single-parent families, with an eye on the normal development of our children, so that tomorrow they are full and ready to be friends, classmates, Spouses, children, grandchildren and even parents and grandparents, with values and principles.
