7 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2023/2066(INI)
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas child poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon stemming from household poverty, meaning that low- income families, families of children with disabilities, single-parent families – mostly made up of women and their children – and large families are at greater risk of poverty as well as generational poverty; whereas this phenomenon requires a multidimensional response, which necessarily includes improving employment and job security including decent wages, guaranteeing and enforcing rights, increasing incomesupporting families and ensuring universal access to quality public services with the special focus on affordable and accessible care infrastructure;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas childcare and pre-school education mayquality, affordable and accessible childcare infrastructure and pre-school education may, in addition to the family supporting measures, play a significant role in compensating for the socio-economic status of children at risk of poverty and foster the integration of parents, especially mothers, into the labour market;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Member States to increase public investment in universal policies that have a direct and indirect impact on children’s lives, by guaranteeing high- quality public services (especially care, education, health, housing, cultural and leisure activities), to promote the creation of work with rights based on robust collective bargaining and recruitment with decent and fair wagedecent and fair wages, to ensure quality jobs, to facilitate a family- work-life balance by, inter alia, reducingflexible working houarrangements for parents and carers and providing for maternity and paternity leave, and to bolster mechanisms for ensuring the participation of children and their families, as well as civil family organisations, in the development, implementation and monitoring of these policies;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that the governments of the Member States are moving away from universal policies and increasingly promoting policies based on the liberalisation of services and instruments whose availability depends on the resources of the beneficiaries; stresses that universal and long-term policiesStresses that systemic and long- term family policies, fostering an environment favourable to families with children, offer better protection against the multiple causes of poverty and social exclusion, by providing structural responses that can, if necessary, be supplemented by immediate, one-off support measures;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to make the efficient and widest possible use of the Child Guarantee as a social response facilitating the social integration and inclusion of children and families suffering from poverty and exclusion;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to implement legislation that protects or enhances maternity, paternity and parental rights, allowing for a more effective work- life balance that makes it possible for women to return to work after pregnancy and maternity leave, and for breastfeeding; deplores various forms of discrimination targeting women wishing to have children, pregnant women and mothers;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Condemns all forms of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect with regard to children, including directed at mothers and pregnant women; highlights the impact of the well-being of mothers and pregnant women on the mental health of their children; calls on the Member States to develop and implement integrated prevention and protection systems for children with a view to eradicating violence;