Her brother Jacques Marette,. minister of Communivations (PTT) in France's government, creates in 1962 the Père Noël secretariat to answer letters from children to Santa Claus. Françoise Dolto, as child psychoanalyst, answers the first letter.
Pediatrician and psychoanalyst and author of many books, she is parents with Boris Dolto of Carlos and of Catherine Dolto.