Commotion, indignation and controversy caused this Wednesday the Secretary of Worship of the Nation, Francisco Sanchezafter stating that children of divorced parents suffer “anxiety” and have “25% lower performance” than children with “established families”. Leaders from across the political spectrum crossed the official who He even received the rejection of his party, the PRO.
“With all the effort it took for a LIBERAL government to come to power, it is very bad that some leaders and officials bring to the present discussions that go back 100 years“, the deputy wrote in her X account Carolina Piparo.
For her part, the radical deputy Karina Banfi considered that Sánchez’s statements are “discriminatory and violent”. “If you are so worried about divorce, send a bill to Congress, if the President supports it. And there we see how they do with the idea,” he added on his social networks.
Sánchez’s statements this Wednesday add to the speech he had given over the weekend during the Vox meeting in Madrid. There he linked the sanction of divorce in Argentina with a distraction maneuver of the government of Raúl Alfonsín due to the economic crisis.
“In 1987, in the midst of the economic crisis, the terrible radical Alfonsinista government promoted the debate on binding divorce, and it was approved. It was the worst time to raise an issue like that in an Argentina in economic crisis. But it was approved,” he recalled. at the Viva24 event.
And with the same thesis he questioned the law of Equality marriage and the IVE, the norm that legalized the abortion.
Now, Sánchez redoubled the bet. In statements to Radio Miter said that the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) “has a fairly serious, recent study” which would indicate that “about 30% of children who are children of separated families suffer from anxiety disorders and have 25% lower performance those who have children with consolidated families“.
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Francisco Sánchez redoubled his bet after the controversy over his statements in Spain. He also anticipated that he will do “everything possible” to ban abortion again.
From the PRO, the deputy Silvia Lospennato He said that the secretary “is not enough to interfere with people’s decision to divorce” and now “intends to assign worse development prospects to the children of divorced parents.” “According to your logic an indissoluble violent marriage It must be a better environment to raise a child. He is a national official, no one is going to ask him to recant?“, he asked himself.
PRO sources consulted by Clarion They in turn considered that the statements about the Divorce law were “an outrage.” “Nothing is further from what we think about a topic that, in itself, is not even debated anymore,” they confided.
From “energúmeno” to “friar of the Inquisition, deputies ask for the resignation of Francisco Sánchez
The president of the Civic Coalition, Maximiliano Ferrarowas harsh and forceful with his opinion: “To this energetic and retrograde you should ask for the resign NOW!”.
Also from the force led by Elisa Carrió, the deputy Juan Manuel Lopez criticized Sánchez with a reflection loaded with irony. “Francisco, you are forgetting to promote the prohibition of having sex before marriageit seems that you got into some ideology, lefty“, he claimed.
Also with great sarcasm, the Buenos Aires legislator from the left Gabriel Solano He went out to cross it. In addition to demanding the separation of State and Church and, therefore, banishing the position of Secretary of Worship, he said that Sánchez “more than secretary of worship “He looks like a friar from the Inquisition.”
Meanwhile, the deputy of Unión por la Patria, Cecilia Moreau, he asked himself: “Did they leave freedom and sew at the door of the Pink House? Are they going to continue questioning the divorce? They delay.”
