Next Sunday, August 16, the traditional celebration dedicated to the little ones will officially take place again under the name “Children's Day”, a designation that has remained in effect since the Government of Javier Milei formally reinstated it through Decree 562/2025.
This is not a new modification adopted this year. The measure was formalized in August 2025 and remains fully in effect during 2026, so the date retains the historical name used for decades by millions of Argentine families, before Argentine progressivism attempted to indoctrinate the youngest.
The decision of the Milei administration had left behind the change promoted in 2020 during the administration of Alberto Fernández, when the National Secretariat for Childhood, Adolescence, and Family pushed to replace “Children's Day” with “Day of Childhoods”.
At that time, the then head of the agency, Gabriel Lerner, justified the modification by stating that they sought to “celebrate the diversity of all childhood” and accompany certain “cultural transformations”. The area also defended a perspective linked to issues of "gender and diversity," aligned with international leftist views.
