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Social Rights provides courses to encourage involvement and equal responsibility of men for responsible and free from traditional stereotypes of gender mandates paternity.
The project is part of the Equality Plan 2016 the City Council and given the opportunity to participate 160 recent or future parents aware that fatherhood changes lives and creates rights and duties.
Conchita Ruiz: "We want to make the necessary changes to make the experience of parenting a satisfactory experience for us, our partners and our children".
Parenting is a matter of men and women equally and regardless of gender, committed identical measure in the care and education of children.
On this basis, the Department of Social Rights is launching a pioneering project that seeks the involvement and equal responsibility of men for responsible parenthood and free of stereotypes.
It is developing an initiative aimed at men for awareness raising and reconciling work and family life and responsibility in the organization of domestic space.
While it is primarily aimed at men who are imminently going to become parents, it is also open to those who have had children or daughters recently.
The new program, which is part of the Equality Plan 2016 the City Council, was presented this morning by the Councillor for Social Rights, Conchita Ruiz, who was accompanied by Santiago Fernandez, project coordinator and president of the Association of Men for Gender Equality (AHIGE), responsible for carrying out the training sessions.
responsible and committed fatherhood
"We want to undertake the changes necessary to make the experience of parenting a satisfactory experience for us, our spouses and our children," Ruiz said, who also he appealed to the need to "encourage change in men towards favorable positions equality, supporting them in this process. "
With this goal has designed this intervention, which aims to "promote a society where real equality between men and women there," said Councilwoman Social Rights, for which it is essential to promote responsible parenthood and committed to equality, questioning the patriarchal model.
Ruiz added that this action is related to our current reality, once "we have overcome the model father basically absent to enjoy a model committed to raising more equal in the relationship and in the education of children ".
The courses, which will have 160 participants, will be held from the second half of September.
Contact with prospective participants will mainly be conducted through 3 ways:
- Men who accompany their partners pregnancy and childbirth preparation, through consultation of the matrons of health centers
- Parents who have their children in municipal nursery schools and reconciliation
- Public Workers involved in the situation described
Before that time comes briefings with professionals Midwives Association of the Region of Murcia, whom the Councillor of Social Rights has expressed its appreciation for their indispensable collaboration in the dissemination of this project will be held.
The first meeting will take place this afternoon at 18.30 pm in the training room Reina Sofía Hospital.
8 groups and 5 sessions
It is planned that this year 8 groups, with a maximum of 20 participants each are in place.
Each course will consist of 5 sessions of 2.30 hours, which will be discussed:
1. Gender Masculinity and Fatherhood: Influence of gender constructions in shaping the masculine identity and vision of Fatherhood
2. The Role of the Father During Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting (with the participation of the group of matrons)
3. Emotional Management: The discomforts as learning to overcome gender conflicts
4. Changes in the relationship derived from parenthood: The family system and spaces families, couples and singles.
5. Conciliation and Co-responsibility: maternity and paternity, work permits for breeding and uses of time.
AHIGE unique association of this kind in the municipality, is responsible for the development of the sessions.
Although this is the first year that Social Rights organizes these courses since 2013 has been providing AHIGE meetings aimed at raising awareness of new or expectant parents through public call for subsidies.
In such cases, the recipients were, in the first edition, ESO and high school students, while the next two years was attended by about 40 members of NGOs and municipal services, especially in the areas of youth, social services or culture.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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