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In Ukraine, parents of children with disabilities are being asked to be granted the right to resign from military service. The corresponding Bill has long been discussed in parliament circles and in the media space. Now there is also a relevant appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers.
Ukrainians demand to allow parents of children with disabilities to resign from service
If parents have a child with a disability up to 18 years old, they have the right to deferral. But this ground is not suitable for discharge from service. Therefore concerned Ukrainians are doing everything possible so that lawmakers once again pay attention to draft law No. 15057 and allow military personnel to return to their families, who are already hard through illness. This is also reflected in petition No. 41/010608-26ep on the Cabinet’s website.
Ukrainians urge reconsideration of the position of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, which criticize the bill due to possible harm to defense capability. But the injustice lies in the fact that a father of a child with disabilities who has not yet been mobilized has the right to deferral, whereas discharge from service to care for a child if there is a mother cannot.
The child is the same. Its disability is the same. Its need for a father has not disappeared. Only the father's status has changed,
— clarified petition author Valeria Kalynych.
Official data show that only two thousand fathers of children with disabilities serve in the Ukrainian army. Therefore, this number, according to supporters of the bill, should not affect the number of servicemen or cause mass dismissals. Moreover, not every such father or mother will leave the service even if lawmakers grant this opportunity.
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Therefore the state is urged to “let the fathers go to their children.”
Draft No. 15057 has long been discussed
After changes to the legislation in 2024 year, a father or mother of a child with disabilities who is already serving in the military effectively lost the opportunity to resign for the sake of caring for the child if there is another parent. At the same time, parents who have such a basis for mobilization can receive a deferral. Human rights defenders call this a legal collision, since the formal presence of a second parent does not mean that he can physically care for the child.
As the initiators of the changes told 24 Channel in comments, the new draft law aims to equalize the rights of parents of children with disabilities. Experts emphasize that this is not about creating a new privilege, but about removing a contradiction in the legislation.
Some members of parliament have already stated their readiness to support the bill. Anna Skorokhod and Iryna Borzova stated that the problem with the discharge of the second parent of a child with disabilities exists and the corresponding changes may be supported.
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