“I’ve been denied 12 years for Kim Jong-in’s remarks… It’s not going to end with an apology”

There is a controversy over what Kim Jong-in said, “there aren’t many normal mothers,” while visiting a support facility for single mothers (single-parent families), chairman of the Emergency Response Committee.

Single-parent families and disabled women raising children on the 11th <오마이뉴스>In a conversation with him, he criticized that “Chairman Kim is following the social prejudice that discriminates by dividing the form of the family into normal and abnormal forms.” They issued an order to Chairman Kim to formally apologize to single-parent families, parents with disabilities, and children and receive human rights education.

On the 9th, Chairman Kim visited Aeranwon, Daishin-dong, Seoul, a facility that helps unmarried pregnant women and their children. At this meeting, Director Kang Young-sil told Chairman Kim, “Unwed mothers with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities are in a more vulnerable situation.”

Then, Chairman Kim replied, “It seems difficult because I have to manage my mother and my children,” and “I don’t think there are many normal mothers.” He added, “I have to protect my child so that he can grow up normally by nurturing it well, but since he is in a very vulnerable state, it would be difficult for a mother to take care of it well.

The ruling Democratic Party called for Kim’s apology and prevention of recurrence, saying, “In addition to stigmatizing single mothers as not being’normal mothers’, it has promoted social prejudice by disparaging the disabled.”

[한부모 가정] “Is it abnormal if I raise a child alone?”

“I have been raising my child for 12 years from the time I was born until now. I thought that I have been doing it well on my own, despite the financial difficulties. But, in a word from Chairman Kim Jong-in, I feel that my past time is unjust.”

Lim Soo-jung (pseudonym, 30s), who raises a 5th grader child alone, raised her voice. Lim decided to take responsibility for the child alone as his father denied pregnancy and childbirth, and has been raising the child for 12 years. Im’s parents were surprised by his childbirth at first, but they did not spare any support afterwards. Still, Mr. Lim said that he encountered discriminatory views and comments like those shown by Chairman Kim Jong-in throughout the process of giving birth and raising children.

Im on the 11th <오마이뉴스>In a phone call with, “Even the child’s school teacher said,’My mom has to spend a lot of time because I don’t have a dad.’ But I’m already spending a lot of time with my child.” This is what came out. Kim Jong-in’s remarks are the same,” he said.

He emphasized, “I have never thought that I can grow up well when I have a child and have both parents. I think I am spending time with my child without any shortcomings.” Regarding Chairman Kim Jong-in’s remarks, Mr. Lim pointed out that “I should have seen it from the perspective of a caregiver who takes responsibility for the child and raises the child regardless of whether it is a single parent, but Chairman Kim distinguished this as normal and abnormal.”

“The important thing is for society to tolerate a variety of family types, such as unmarried, single-parent, and single-person households, and to create policies accordingly,” Lim emphasized.

“I did a lawsuit for two years to receive child support from the father of a child because I didn’t know my child, but in the end I had to give up the lawsuit,” he said. Pointed out.

[장애 여성] “Chairman Kim Jong-in needs human rights education”

Seo Ji-won (41), who is raising two 13-year-olds and 9-year-olds, is raising two elementary school children, the team leader of the’Dancing Waist’ of the disabled women’s theater company, criticized, “I can’t figure out what it means to raise it well as Chairman Kim said.” Team leader Seo is a mother with severe disabilities and speech impairments.

He said, “Sometimes I have a body around me (I have a disability), but I asked how to raise a child,” he said. “People broke the value of my parenting work very easily.”

Team leader Seo emphasized that neither single-parent families nor parents with disabilities are subject to’deficiency’. Being a caregiver who can take responsibility for the process of giving birth, raising and caring for children. He said, “I have never raised a child on the basis of normal,” he criticized, saying, “Currently, various family members live in Korean society, but Chairman Kim denied their efforts by referring to’normal and abnormal’.” .

He added, “In fact, I often encounter narrow gazes like Chairman Kim. Whenever I go to the mart or spend time with my child, there is a strange gaze that looks at a non-disabled child and a disabled mother.”

“When I saw a child with my mother in a wheelchair, there was a chatter around me.’I asked the child and he said,’I was embarrassed and upset because the other children looked at my mother strangely.’ I was upset to see the child’s shrinking. Jong-in Kim’s remarks expressed the gaze that I and the child felt. He must apologize directly to single-parent families, disabled women and their children across the country.”

Team leader Seo emphasized that he should receive human rights education with Chairman Kim’s apology. He added, “Chairman Kim should show (the sincerity of apples) as a policy that helps social minorities settle in the local community and become independent.”