Source: European Parliament
Priority question for written answer P-002649/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Branko Grims (PPE)
In Slovenia, the Women’s Counselling Association (Association for Nonviolent Communication) has for some time been running a campaign featuring posters showing violence committed by fathers against children, which has generated a highly negative response. Roadside posters show pictures of a child with a birthmark on one side of his face, which is described as the ‘mother’s mark’. Also on the child’s face is the trace of a blow, which is referred to as the ‘father’s mark’. This clearly insinuating, manipulative and grossly misrepresentative campaign is unfair to all fathers who have never been violent towards their children. At the same time, it conceals and grossly distorts the reality, as statistics show that it is by no means only men who are violent in the home.
At the bottom of the poster the Commission is listed as one of the sponsors of the campaign. I would therefore like to ask the Commission:
- 1.On the basis of what criteria does it fund NGOs using taxpayers’ money to carry out such insidious, one-sidedly manipulative and manifestly unfair propaganda campaigns against fathers, and why?
- 2.How would it comment on such posters, and on the biased insinuation that this violence against children is committed by fathers?
Submitted: 1.7.2025