qAre there still riots in the spring of 2023 in the neighborhoods after the death of the young Nahel Merzouk? A social stigma, an insult to parents in priority neighborhoods and, specifically, little additional help – even a setback with the disappearance of the Ministry of Urban Policy in the current government. We are still waiting for a national parenting support strategy.
The words of working-class parents, whenever we bring them to light, paint a very different reality from the caricatures we usually hear. In alliance with the National Union of Family Associations, the City Student Foundation Association conducted a survey of 737 parents in priority neighborhoods. What is your experience?
We observe, first of all, greater exposure to precariousness. Almost a quarter of families live below the poverty line. According to the survey, 69% of working parents do so on atypical or staggered schedules. Specifically, they cannot be present when their children wake up and/or return from school.
Strong educational load
Single parenthood also predominates (36% of those surveyed, that is, 11 points more than the national average), the gender dimension of which must be highlighted: 82% of family heads are women. Finally, the educational burden is high, with 56% of households made up of three or more children, a third of which are single-parent families.
The proposals on single parenthood drawn from the Senate’s transpartisan report presented by Colombe Brossel (Socialist Party, Paris) and Béatrice Gosselin (Les Républicains, Manche) are ready. They could concretely improve the lives of single-parent families. It is urgent to act.
These working-class parents, like others, are worried about their children’s future. But they are also worried about bad company. More than one in two families fear that their children are in danger. This anxiety is particularly acute in neighborhoods plagued by drug trafficking.
These parents are very aware that their children’s future depends on the school and demonstrate extremely strong trust in the educational institution. They invest everything they can in school monitoring, but almost 40% of them do not help their children with their homework: they censor themselves for fear of deceiving them. At a time when the relationship between parents and school has become largely digital, how can we accept that one in four parents cannot use Pronote? [logiciel de gestion de la vie scolaire] ?
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