When Chos Montes had six months pregnant, he chose with his partner, Máximo Peña, the name of the daughter who would come. At that time of … The consensus of the father highlights the last names: Benia Montes. Then Chos corrected it. No, Montes Benia. “At that moment, I pressed me, I didn’t expect it,” he said now. “But I did not see a reason not, and I discovered that it was one of the privileges that men lost when talking about equality, which is transferred to the last children by default to the children.” “These ideas pass through the drops in the caves,” explains Montes. “During pregnancy, an approach to feminism began; An entrance to the ideas that you even then was very mysterious. In this process, I felt that there was no better title for my daughter. For the couple, it “apparently a small but very important gesture, related to others like paternity and motherhood.”
By that time, the 2017 law that regulates the traditional investment of the nickname of the new baby was not approved, but it has been reached since 2000. “But many people have not practiced this option and the name of the parental family prevailed first, even if there was a discussion. Even in June 2017, another law canceled this proliferation into effect. In the event of a disagreement between parents for more than three days, civil registry staff decide the matter, taking into account the best interests of the child.
But there was strangeness in the record. “I remember that the official asked us several times if we were sure, and we looked at me.” Says Benia, author of the article “Parents here and now”, about the new masculinity. “We warned:“ Did you know that if you have another child, you will have to repeat the same arrangement? ”Tell us several times, he was a little confusing, but in the end he managed to do so well.
Since the law entered into force, there are no unified data for civil records that indicate the percentage of this possibility for their children. The National Institute of Statistics (INE), which was managed by this newspaper, said it lacks data. They are not in the publications of the Ministry of Justice. “He records registration and I am afraid that he does not have these statistics.”
“The fact that something has not been documented or followed, means that it does not matter to the state or society. “If he imports this equality policy, to know the effects he produces,” says Benia. “The last name of the mother is very important because it is symbolic.”
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The social changes that Spain has experienced in recent years are reflected in the laws and measures of equality, some of which are invisible, such as placing the last name of the mother first, if the family decides. “This has been done to enhance gender equality,” says Quintano. “The historical spread of the patriarchal title has been dispensed. Nevertheless, there was no social criticism and no problem has been born yet, “unlike other conflicts, such as the right to divorce”, when there was a revolution to oppose conservative sectors. There is no stigma towards children with the name of the mother for the first time, as if it had happened with the children of the divorced.
Warning, warning, warning, tale, almost: “In the police, they told us that in the girl’s identifier, we appear in reverse order.” Being the name of my family first, my first name should appear on the contrary, as it says “son”. But the father appears first. “This comes from the birth certificate, and in the end there was an error in the registry,” they say, without giving importance. The last names continue as they decided that the sixth month of pregnancy.
