The two associations have issued a joint communique noted that “single parents will not allow linking gender violence law to the processes of separation and divorce on the ground that such measure involves the criminalization of separation processes and would be a trail of false allegations of abuse in order to prevent joint custody. ”

Both groups have stressed that it is “false” would accept that the draft law “to include the prohibition of giving joint custody with only signs of abuse and not through a reasoned final decision and once rated the severity of abuse” and have argued that their intention is “to prevent single parents from being deprived of living with their children with a simple complaint of abuse or physical or psychological abuse not proven.”

“We can not accept that link the processes of separation and divorce to a discriminatory law, answered from many sectors of society which would only hinder and introduce tension in the already difficult process of separation,” reads the statement, which claim that “the Valencian society needs fair and equal laws at both the family and in gender equality.”

Associations of single parents have also criticized the press conference on Thursday gave the minister of Interior, Serafin Castilian, because “it presented as an agreement with the associations of mothers and fathers separated what is not.”

“We have never accepted nor will we accept that we applied principles contrary to the presumption of innocence and inequality in criminal law, with the clear conviction that the day you do such a thing will be a serious breach of the rule of law that premium to all be equal before the law, “they conclude.