A political sociology approach to parental authority in European family governance

本研究以近年来欧洲人权法院审理的有关性教育项目和亲权的亲权与个人权利的冲突为背景，分析了欧洲制度对家庭治理的作用和影响。它对有关家庭政策和性政治的欧洲档案进行了一项基于经验文件的研究，重点是与《欧洲人权公约》第8和第9条以及该公约第1号议定书第2条有关的判例法。该项目有两个主要目标，第一个是发展一种新的理论方法，可以审查各种欧洲机构关于家庭和父母权威的决定和政策对父母-子女权力关系的影响。第二是确定所研究的变革对国家和国际背景的多重和具体影响，以便在儿童人权争议案件中为有关行为者（国家机构，政策制定者，父母和儿童）总结政策简要指南（PBG）中的结果。这些文件揭示了对长期存在的社会等级制度和区别的质疑，例如父母对子女的等级制度，性别差异的合法化，或国家干预家庭政策的作用。因此，该项目假设社会再生产本身处于危险之中，因为生活方式和社会关系的自我延续趋势-如性别、宗教、性行为等-是研究文件中父母关注的基础。通过揭示社会不连续性的物质基础来理解亲子权力关系的核心原则是本项目的创新贡献。

Spurred by recent conflicts between parental rights and individual rights related to sex education programs and parental authoritythat have been taken to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), this research analyses the role and effects of Europeaninstitutions on family governance. It conducts an empirical document-based study on European archives concerning family policiesand sexual politics, with an emphasis on case law related to the 8th and 9th articles of the European Convention on Human Rights,and on the 2nd article of Protocol 1 of the Convention. The project has two main objectives, the first is to develop a new theoreticalapproach that can examine the effects of various European institutions' decisions and policies regarding family and parental authorityon the parent-child power relation. The second is to identify the multiple and concrete effects of the studied transformations both onnational and international contexts, in order to summarise the results in a Policy Brief Guideline (PBG) for concerned actors (stateinstitutions, policy makers, parents, and children) in disputed cases on child human rights. These documents bring to light thequestioning of long-standing social hierarchies and distinctions, such as the parental hierarchy with regards to their children, thelegitimation of sexual difference, or the state role to intervene in family policies. The project therefore hypothesises that socialreproduction itself is at stake, in that the self-perpetuation tendency of lifestyles and social relations - such as gender, religion,sexuality, etc.- is at the base of parental concerns in the studied documents. Understanding the core tenets of parent-child powerrelation by revealing the material basis of social discontinuities is an innovative contribution of this project.