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In Ukraine, parents of children with disabilities are being asked to be granted the right to be released from service. The corresponding bill has long been discussed in parliamentary circles and in the media space. Now there is also a formal appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers.
Ukrainians demand to allow parents of children with disabilities to be discharged from service
If parents have a child with a disability up to 18 years old, they have the right to deferral. However, this grounds does not fit for discharge from service. Therefore, concerned Ukrainians are doing everything possible for parliamentarians to again draw attention to the draft law No. 15057 and allow servicemen to return to their families, who are already struggling due to illness. There is also a petition No. 41/010608-26ep on the Cabinet of Ministers' website.
Ukrainians call on the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Veterans Affairs to reconsider their positions, which criticize the draft law because of possible harm to military readiness. But the injustice is that an unmobilized father of a child with a disability has the right to deferral, while discharge from service for caregiving, if the child has a mother, cannot.
The child is the same. Her disability is the same. Her need for a father has not disappeared. Only the father's status has changed,
— clarified the petition author Valeriya Kalynych.
Official data show that only two thousand fathers of children with disabilities serve in the Ukrainian army. Therefore, this number, in the opinion of project supporters, should not influence the number of servicemen and cause mass dismissals. Moreover, not every such father or mother will leave service, even if lawmakers grant such an opportunity.
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Therefore, the state is urged to “let parents go to their children.”
Draft No. 15057 has been discussed for a long time
After changes to the legislation in 2024 year, a father or mother of a child with a disability who already serves in the military effectively lost the opportunity to discharge for caregiving if there is another parent. Meanwhile, parents who have such grounds before mobilization can obtain a deferral. Civil rights advocates call this a legal collision, since the formal presence of a second parent does not mean they can physically care for the child.
As the initiators of the changes told 24 Channel, 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 draft law. Anna Skorokhod and Iryna Borzova stated that the problem with discharging the second parent of a child with a disability exists and that the relevant changes could be supported.
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