Samia Ben Messaoud, President of the Amal Association for Single Mothers, Sounds the Alarm on Annual Births Outside of Marriage and Denounces the Existence of Children Without Legal Identity
The phenomenon of births outside of marriage is a persistent problem in Tunisia, affecting nearly a thousand cases each year. This was confirmed by Samia Ben Messaoud, head of the Amal Association, who was a guest on the IFM radio station. Beyond the statistics, the situation raises a major issue of legal identity. The president of the association revealed that her organization has identified "cases of children without a family name" (without a surname) in Tunisia. This situation is all the more worrying as it contradicts the existing legal framework. "Despite the fact that the law, since 1998, has left no child without a name," she emphasized, such cases still exist.
Note: I translated "présidente de l'association Amal pour les mères célibataires" to "President of the Amal Association for Single Mothers" to better convey the meaning and context of the title. I also used "surname" as a translation for "nom de famille" to provide a more accurate and natural-sounding equivalent in English.
