Barcelona: A Spanish jury has ruled that a single mom has the right to the parental keep a lover would have been expected if she had one, essentially doubling her depart, according to a decision seen by AFP on Thursday.
The unnamed woman asked to be given the 16 days of filial left that would have been granted a companion, in addition to the 16 week she was entitled to, after she gave birth in January 2022 in the southern region of Murcia.
After social service rejected her demand she turned to the authorities.
Murcia’s higher court ruled in her behalf and said she was expected a total of 32 weeks of parental year on the grounds that all babies should be treated the same, according to a decision dated January 9.
It noted a November decision from Spain’s legal judge that barred prejudice against children born into single-parent people.
” It seems irrefutable that parents in single-parent people have, at least, the same healing demands as parents in two-parent people,” the constitutional judge wrote in its judgement, which the local court cited.
Denying a single family the leave a lover would have been expected gives children born into single-parent families” a significantly shorter interval of parental care soon after birth”, it said.
The consequences of this are “even more unjustified” given statistics showing that children from single-parent households are at higher risk of poverty, it added.
The regional court ruling is subject to appeal.
The woman will not be able to benefit from the extra parental leave now since she gave birth three years ago, but her lawyer told Spanish media he hopes she will be financially compensated for the leave she was denied.
