“I was born as out of wedlock. During my childhood, I had felt - TopicsExpress

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“I was born as out of wedlock. During my childhood, I had felt uncomfortable and tightness when I was felt sympathy by people around me. 「私は、婚外子として生まれました。幼い頃、周囲に「かわいそう」と同情されるたび、不自由さや窮屈さを感じていました。(※日本語下記） Children themselves cannot choose which country to live or their parents. The inheritance provision of Civil Law seems that the law itself granted the discrimination against wedlock children.” The article of Ms. Keiko Ochiai who is a one of the writers published in Asahi newspaper dated on July 10th was interesting as there are a lot of Japanese-Filipino children who were born as out of wedlock. She said, “my mother was one who had very hard time. She had been blamed by relatives and she had felt guilty, which made her developed neurosis. The discrimination provision of inheritance of Civil Law includes the discrimination against women who gave birth out of wedlock. The out of wedlock children were written as a“child” in the space of relationship of Residence Certificate before while wedlock children were written as a “eldest son” or ”second daughter”. That easily makes you know that the child was born out of wedlock at that time. However now, all children are written as a “child” I stood to give my testimony as I was asked by the plaintiff in the lawsuit fighting over what were described in the Residence Certificate twenty years ago. My mother pushed me saying, “I will be content even though my private will come into the open if it can make possible to open the door resolving the discrimination in the world.” I received a lot of letters from people after my testimony at the court. I reconfirmed that a lot of people are also hiding the fact that they gave birth out of wedlock and are blaming themselves. We should not allow the law reproducing the discrimination against the specific groups. I seek from the bottom of my heart that the Supreme Court will give the decision unconstitutional to the inheritance provision.” 子どもが、どの国に生まれ、誰のもとに生まれるかは、自分で選べません。民法の相続規定は、婚外子の差別は当然だと、法が言っているようなものです。」婚外子として生まれたJFCの子どもたちも多く、2013年7月10日付朝日新聞に掲載された作家・落合恵子さんの話は興味深かったです。「私を産んだことで、本当に大変だったのは母でした。親類から非難されたり、後ろめたさを感じたりしたことが大きな引き金の一つとなり、神経症を患いました。相続差別規定は、婚外子を産んだ女性に対する差別も含んでいるのです。　以前、住民票の続き柄の欄には、婚内子であれば「長男」「次女」と記載されるのに、婚外子は「子」と記載されていました。今は「子」に統一されていますが、当時は婚外子だとわかる記載だったのです。　20年前、その記載の是非が争われた裁判で、原告から依頼されて証言に立ちました。母は「世の中の差別の解消の扉を開くことができるなら、自分のプライベートなことが公になっても構わない」と背中を押してくれました。　裁判で証言したことで、多くの方から手紙を受け取りました。自分が婚外子であることや、婚外子を産んだことを隠し続け、隠す自分を責めている人が多いと再確認しました。　法律が、特定のグループへの差別を再生産することは許されません。最高裁が、相続規定を違憲とすることを心から求めます。」 asahi/shimen/articles/TKY201307090649.html

Posted on: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:17:16 +0000

“I was born as out of wedlock. During my childhood, I had felt - TopicsExpress

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