"If we, bereaved parents of a baby welcome the initiative to write 'parange' in the dictionary, we do not recognize ourselves in this term, which does not seem to us to be representative of what we have experienced", claim the authors of the petition.
This petition which brings together nearly 1,200 signatures was launched by Sophie de Chivré, author of Au Revoir Podcast, Pauline Lavaud, creator of the Instagram account @ 9mois9jours, Mathilde Lemiesle, creator of the Instagram account @mespresquesriens, Yolanda Pinto De Sousa, creator of the Instagram account @parlez_moidelle, Marie Toinet-Segura, creator of the Instagram account @ellie_petite_etoile and finally, Julie Tran Ngoc My, creator of the Instagram account @a_nos_etoiles.
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“We had to make unimaginable decisions”
Indeed, the term parange which designates the parents bereaved by the loss of a child would be discriminatory and too "soft" since "parange" represents the contraction between "angel" and "parent".
“No, it’s not an angel that we lost. We experienced curettage under general anesthesia, delivered a stillborn baby, lived the last moments of our baby in intensive care, accompanied our child to the hospital ", defends a bereaved parent. “We had to make unimaginable decisions: organize a funeral, a cremation, choose a coffin, select the last blanket or the little pajamas to accompany our baby or our child”.
In addition, this word would have a religious connotation judged “Untimely and discriminatory” since perinatal mourning is experienced by parents of all cultures, all religions and all beliefs. Thus, the authors of this petition ask the public authorities and members of the Académie Française to look again at this term, in order to find a universal word to represent all the parents who have experienced such mourning, whatever the their origin or religion.