Finally! CN's first law instructs parents to be responsible for

China's first law on family education enacted on January 1, 2022 instructs parents to become responsible guardians and specifies the boundary between school education and family education, experts said. 

The topic that Chinese parents now have to raise children in accordance with the law trended on social media on Monday as China's first law on the promotion of family education was enacted on Saturday. 

The Family Education Promotion Law which has six chapters and 55 articles stipulates the responsibilities of guardians of minors and the society on family education in terms of family responsibility, state support, social collaboration and legal responsibility. 

It is another bombshell Chinese law on education following the Education Law, the Compulsory Education Law and the Law on the Protection of Minors. 

Although some related content on family education was stipulated in previous laws related to minors, the new law is China's first targeting parents which specifies parents' responsibilities in practicing family education, according to Yang Xiong, a research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the chief expert of Shanghai Family Education Research Association, who participated in the reading of the draft law. 

Meanwhile, the law is also China's first legislation on family education which raises the issue of family education from a family matter to a state affair. 

The purpose of the law is to instruct parents on how to be a responsible parent through legislation and provide parents with help via the public systems when they come across difficulties and problems in parenting, according to the adviser to the legislation for this law Yuan Ningning, deputy director of the base of juvenile affairs governance and legal research at China University of Political Science and Law, China Central Television reported. 

According to the expert, the law reflects that the government shoulders responsibility for promoting family education by providing support and assistance to families, while families are the main body of practicing family education. 

 

Source:globaltimes

Editor: Crystal H

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