A Vox guest in the Canary Parliament, against same-parent parenting: "The best is a dad and a mom"

Francisco Martínez Pañaranda, president of the ultraconservative association Libertas, intervened this past Tuesday in the commission on child poverty in the Parliament of the Canary Islands, where he attacked homosexual people, assuring that egalitarian marriage between people of the same sex "is not discussed enough." Likewise, he expressed opposition to the existence of child poverty.

The president of the association, invited by Vox to this meeting, pointed out that "it is the first time in human civilization that we are raising children without a mother or father." In this regard, he stressed that "we have had decades and decades of sociological data that no one disputed, which said that children in general are better off when they have a father and a mother, and this is stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

This moment of the intervention aroused the astonishment and indignation of some of those present, to which Pañaranda commented that "it may seem extravagant to you, but I have the right to say what I think, don't I?"

"Whether with adoptive parents, single parents, temporary parents, stepparents, cohabiting parents, or single parents, the best option is for them to live with a dad and a mom," he continued.

Denies child poverty

On the other hand, Francisco Martínez also assured during his intervention that child poverty "is a misconception, a very well-internalized fallacy that must be unmasked." Regarding this, he explained that international organizations use the concept of child poverty "in an overwhelming way and we come to the conclusion that it exists, but it is not true."

"The reality is that it is the family that is poor, and if the family is the one that needs help, why is the child called poor and not the family? The answer is very clear and it is because there is a will to detach the child from their family, to uproot them from it," he continued.

In addition, Pañaranda pointed out that his proposal to avoid child poverty is "family, family, and family."

In response to the denial of child poverty, Natalia Santana, from the Nueva Canarias-Bloque Canarista Group, replied that this term is used because "when a family lives in a situation of poverty, that child lives the consequences of it."

"It's not that child poverty doesn't exist, what exists is a childhood that grows up in homes that do not have the same opportunities as the rest and that is why this commission is born because the data we have been hearing for months here are not opinions or an ideology," Santana continued.

"We can debate policies or ideological approaches, but I find it profoundly unfair to convey the idea that administrations or professionals work to separate children from their families," he concluded.

Libertas, an association against equality