Parliament voted finally on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate, a bill to ban "ordinary educational violence". The text, adopted by show of hands unanimously, registered in the Civil Code, the article read at the town hall at weddings, that "parental authority is exercised without physical or psychological violence".
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"A benevolent education based on dialogue"
The ban will appear on the front page of the children's health book, Secretary of State Adrien Taquet announced before the vote. France remained "one of the last five European countries not to have integrated into its law this prohibition," said the Secretary of State, for whom this text sends "an extremely strong signal". It reflects the government's desire to "promote caring education based on dialogue, mutual respect," at the heart of the "new approach to child policy".