Honour-related violence and oppression in families
Custody and residence when a parent commits honour-related violence or oppression
What's at stake: The decision affects children living in families where honour-based norms are present and who risk violence, oppression or abduction. An explicit bar on custody or residence for parents who commit such violence would provide stronger and clearer protection, while continuing to assess matters case by case under current rules means that protection continues to be decided through an overall best-interests assessment.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether it should be made explicitly impossible for a parent who commits honour-related violence or oppression to share custody or be the child's primary residential parent, and whether suspected honour-related abduction of a child should count as a signal that siblings are also at risk, or whether the recently introduced changes to the Children and Parents Code already give children sufficient protection.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee rejects the motions, noting that several legislative changes have already been made in recent years to protect children from violence and abuse, including the offence of exposing a child to violence and a strengthened right for children to participate in custody proceedings. Since 1 January 2025, further changes give the risk of a child coming to harm a particularly prominent place in the Children and Parents Code's overarching provision on the best interests of the child, while the child's need for contact with both parents is no longer specifically mentioned, and limit contact with a parent when it conflicts with the best interests of the child.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 26 (S)
The reservation (S) calls for Parliament to instruct the government that a parent who subjects a child to honour-related violence or oppression should not share custody or be the child's residential parent, and that suspicion that a child risks honour-related abduction should be treated as a signal that siblings, too, are at risk of such violence and oppression. The reason given is that work against honour-related oppression must continue despite legislative changes already made, since reports of oppressed and abducted children and women continue to occur.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 26 by S.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
V
–
Yes 20/0/0/4
Sown reservation
–
No 0/93/0/13
MP
–
Yes 16/0/0/2
C
–
Yes 18/0/1/5
L
–
Yes 14/0/0/2
KD
–
Yes 17/0/0/2
M
–
Yes 60/0/0/8
SD
–
Abstain 0/0/62/10
Broke with the party line
CHelena Lindahl(C, Västerbottens län)
Abstain — party line: Yes
MPs whose vote differs from their party's majority position in this division. Marked with a dark ring in the chamber view.
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2024/25:1389 by Mikael Eskilandersson et al. (SD) motion 5,
2024/25:1413 by Sara Gille et al. (SD) motion 15 and
2024/25:3073 by Jennie Nilsson et al. (S) motion 16.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2024/25:1389 av Mikael Eskilandersson m.fl. (SD) yrkande 5,
2024/25:1413 av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD) yrkande 15 och
2024/25:3073 av Jennie Nilsson m.fl. (S) yrkande 16.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected approximately 140 proposals on family law found in motions from the general motion period in 2024. The motions concern, among other things, waiting periods in case of divorce, property division and custody, residence and visitation rights in cases of domestic violence. The Riksdag refers primarily to enacted legislation and that work is already being conducted in the areas covered by the proposals.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants the mediation instrument in custody disputes to be developed to increase knowledge about intimate partner violence and to give victims access to support persons. (S) — Reservation 26
Motion 2024/25:1413 — Krafttag mot hedersrelaterat våld och förtryck av Sara Gille m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1414 — Mäns våld mot kvinnor och våld i nära relationer av Michael Rubbestad m.fl. (SD)
Motion 2024/25:1516 — Situationen kring gode män och förvaltare av Peder Björk och Malin Larsson (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:1522 — Registrering av testamenten av Peter Hedberg och Malin Larsson (båda S)
Motion 2024/25:1618 — Ansvar för barn till föräldrar som förolyckas av Elisabeth Thand Ringqvist (C)
Motion 2024/25:1657 — Kriminalisering av det ekonomiska våldet av Karin Sundin (S)
Motion 2024/25:1865 — Ersättning till borgerliga vigselförrättare av Marianne Fundahn (S)
Motion 2024/25:1903 — Åtgärder för att stoppa mäns våld mot kvinnor och barn av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V)
Motion 2024/25:2047 — Borgerlig vigselförrättare av Ann-Charlotte Hammar Johnsson och Mats Sander (båda M)
Motion 2024/25:2048 — Bodelning som drar ut på tiden av Ann-Charlotte Hammar Johnsson (M)
Motion 2024/25:2284 — Sänkning av åldersgränsen för omyndigas rätt att disponera egna tjänade pengar till 15 år av Mattias Eriksson Falk och Roger Hedlund (båda SD)