Foundling children: why it is impossible to hesitate to register a child

“Law on Foundlings” – this is how the crazy idea of ​​the deputies has already been nicknamed.

Taking care of children, not otherwise … State Duma deputy Valentina Petrenko, it seems, took too close to heart the story of a boy named BOCh rVF 260602 (Human biological object of the Voronin-Frolov family, born on June 26, 2002). It turns out that the child has been living without documents for 10 years – they refused to register him with that name in the Moscow registry offices.

Valentina Aleksandrovna decided to write a law to prohibit parents from calling their children numbers, abbreviations, and even more so with the help of words from profanity. It would seem a good thing to protect the child from the exuberant imaginations of their mothers and fathers. However, behind the emotional speculation about names that break the fate of children, one little fad of the new bill went unnoticed:

“In the case when the parents do not declare the birth of a child within the prescribed period (the law gives a maximum of a month. – Note Woman’s day), the birth of a child is registered in the manner prescribed by Article 19 of the Federal Law“ On Civil Status Acts ”.

We open this article and read the title: “State registration of the birth of a found (thrown) child.”

In other words, if in a month you have not decided on a name for your baby or for some other reason did not get to the registry office and did not receive a birth certificate, he is recognized as a foundling. Even if you are a single mother. Even if there is no one to leave the baby with, but to drag the baby with you is stupid. It doesn’t matter why – the main thing is that you didn’t get to the registry office in a month. And now, legally, your child is an orphan whose parents are unknown.

From this moment on, the social welfare authorities will join the game and take care of your child like an orphan. That is, they come up with a name and surname for him, issue a birth certificate for this data. Parents do not appear in it. You are unknown persons before the law. So his wording says. And if, for example, 33 days after the birth of a child, you still go to register it, you will not be parents, no. You will be the “baby finders”.

And if so, you have no rights to it. And the social welfare authorities will have every right to take the child to the orphanage! Don’t believe me? The original bill can be read here.

Yes, for comparison, let us remind you: now you will be fined for being late for registration. From one and a half to two and a half thousand rubles. If the law is adopted, you, without knowing it, without any warning, will become nothing for your baby. Legally.

– The status of “foundling” means that the child does not have “parental care”, that is, he is with you illegally! The guardianship authorities are engaged in the protection of such children, – says Olga Baranets, public ombudsman for family protection in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. She raised a fuss, noticing this “insignificant” point of the bill. She began to bombard the State Duma with complaints and telegrams, demanding that the new amendment be rejected.

Of course, the removal of a child from the family is an extreme measure, which hardly anyone will take. Still, you have to be quite a beast to take the newborn from the mother. Unless the family is completely marginal, of course, where the mother forgot about the registration of the baby for more “important” matters. But God knows how many circles of bureaucratic hell you have to go through to prove that the child is yours. Native.

– On what basis can the status of “thrown” be assigned if the mother feeds and gives water to the child? – the social activist is indignant. – It will simply be an excuse to take the child away from loving parents and send him to some “rehabilitation center”. They will not be able to rescue the baby from where, because in his new documents, which will be issued by the guardianship authorities, there will not be a word about the mother and father. In the meantime, the parents will sue government agencies, the fate of the newborn will be determined by some child-loving organizations with foreign funding …

On March 7, the bill was passed in the first reading. Although not all MPs approved of the idea of ​​foundlings, there is little hope that the insane proposal will remain only in the archives of bills. At least Valentina Petrenko promised that by the second reading she would make the necessary corrections on this point. We will find out which ones very soon.

Interview

Do you think the law needs to be tightened this way?

  • Indeed, some kind of madness. You never know why the man was late.

  • A month is enough to register the baby. But the measures are still too harsh.

  • This is the only way to educate undisciplined people. If you have not registered it, it means you do not need it.

  • Probably, we all misunderstood. Deputies cannot simply prescribe such draconian measures.

  • I’ll leave my version in the comments.

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