Ils doivent payer pour leurs parents (reportage intégral)

They refuse to pay for their parents. Battered and abandoned children are forced, once they become adults, to pay for their former abusers' nursing homes. In France, the legal obligation to provide support (Article 205 of the Civil Code) requires children to contribute to the basic needs of their parents. This long-standing rule often resurfaces when a parent enters a nursing home, when retirement pensions don't cover the required 2,500 to 3,000 euros per month. Régis, 54, was asked to finance his mother's nursing home fees. He hasn't seen her since childhood and can no longer even bring himself to call her "Mom." This demand has reopened decades of wounds: maternal abandonment, paternal violence, and years spent in foster care. There is only one way to escape this obligation: proving the parent's serious failure to provide support. This is precisely what Virginie, Estelle, and Mélanie are trying to do to avoid paying for their father, who disappeared from their lives thirty years ago after domestic violence. To build their case, they must find old court orders, witness statements, and vivid memories of the violence and deprivation that marked their childhood. A report by Charlotte Boniteau, Florent Bardos, Hélène Renaux, and Stéphanie Merlet / 10.7 Production. ❤ To subscribe: https://bit.ly/ES-abonnement 🔔 Turn on notifications so you don't miss any videos! Find us also on: ▶ Replay: https://bit.ly/ES-080126 👤 Facebook:   / envoyespecial.france2   📷 Instagram:   / envoyespecial   🐦 Twitter:   / envoyespecial   🎶 TikTok:   / envoyespecial.tv