Top news reporter Zhang Zhizhong correspondent Gao Yanhong
In order to implement family education guidance and guide the parents of minors to better perform their family education duties, on April 15, 2024, the Wancheng District Court of Nanyang City issued a "Reminder Sheet for Caring for Minors" to the parties to a divorce dispute case.
Wang and Yang have a daughter, who is a minor. In the case of the divorce dispute between the two, after careful mediation by the judge of the Cha'an Court of the Wancheng District Court, the two parties voluntarily divorced, and the legitimate daughter was raised by her mother Yang. In order to better protect the lawful rights and interests of the minors involved in the case and reduce the impact of the parents' divorce on the children, after the case was completed, Judge Wang Haiyan came to the parties' homes and served the parties with a "Notice of Family Education Responsibility", guiding both parties to pay attention to the spiritual and material needs of the healthy growth of their minor children, and actively perform their guardianship responsibilities and family education responsibilities.
Family education is an important part of a child's growth, and it will affect the child's life with the child's life. Recently, the Wancheng District People's Court has flexibly carried out the work of "caring for minors" at various stages such as case filing, pre-litigation mediation, trial, and enforcement through various channels such as online and offline channels, through various forms such as oral notification, on-site prompt reading, video playback, and "prompt cards" or "reminder manuals", and at the same time continued to exert efforts through forms such as "sending the law to campus", "family education guidance station", "vice principal for rule of law", and "post-judgment return visits to help and educate juvenile defendants".
In the next step, the Wancheng District Court will combine the actual work of family trials and juvenile trials, adhere to the principle of the best interests of minors, expand the scope of application of the "Caring for Minors Reminder Sheet", provide guidance for parents of minors to carry out correct family education, effectively protect the lawful rights and interests of minors, promote the effective connection between judicial protection and family protection, school protection, and social protection, and provide comprehensive judicial protection for the healthy growth of minors.
Links to legal provisions
Article 14 of the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the Promotion of Family Education": Parents or other guardians shall establish a sense of responsibility that the family is the first classroom and parents are the first teachers, bear the primary responsibility for carrying out family education for minors, and use correct thinking, methods, and conduct to educate minors to develop positive thoughts, conduct, and habits.
Article 11 of the Supreme People's Court and All-China Women's Federation's "Opinions on Carrying Out Family Education Guidance Work": People's courts may carry out family education guidance through various forms such as courtroom education, interpretation of the law and reasoning, on-site counseling, online counseling, psychological intervention, and the drafting and issuance of family education responsibility notices at all stages such as pre-litigation mediation, case trial, and post-judgment follow-up visits.