Foreign laws on children's rights and interests are very perfect. For parents who have just emigrated, they should learn more and know more about them. Otherwise, the consequences will be quite serious. Recently, a new Chinese immigrant mother left her child alone in the reading area of the library, but she went to a nearby supermarket to shop, almost causing a marijuana annoyance.
1. Leave the kids to buy food.
Last November, a mother surnamed Li and her 9-year-old child came out from China to accompany her husband as her husband went to work abroad.
As soon as she arrived, neither mother nor son spoke English very well, and there was no other entertainment. The public library near home has become a favorite place for mother and child. Here facilities are perfect, the environment is quiet, Li mother often accompany her son to read together. On one occasion, the mother and son read at noon, and Li's mother saw many Chinese parents reading with their children in the library. She felt safe and left her son alone in the reading area, while she went to a nearby supermarket to buy food. Half an hour later, however, when Li's mother returned to the library, she saw a number of police officers surrounded his son, and the helpless and weak son had tears all over his face and was at a loss as to what to do.
"I was so frightened that I thought something had happened to the child. I would like to ask, but the English is not good, and there is no way to communicate. " When Li's mother was in a hurry, someone next to her helped the translator to know the beginning and end of the matter.
When the librarian found a child reading a book, he asked ahead. The child was frightened to cry when he did not understand English, and then the caretaker called the police. After being questioned by the police, the police said the Child Welfare Bureau would visit the house after the incident and could lose custody of the child if it was found again that the couple were negligent in the management of their children.
2. Verbal abuse and corporal punishment of children
In Australia, the protection of minors is also very strong.
As one of the most popular countries for Chinese immigrants, Australia announced the establishment of the National Child Protection Council in 1991, whose function is to prevent child abuse and neglect. The agency has launched triple protection measures for Australian children: extensive prevention, special care and prevention of recurrence.
In the aspect of juvenile justice system, Australia fully implements the concepts of maximization of children's interests, family community participation, judicial diversion, non-custodial punishment and so on, which has formed a unique model that attracts the attention of countries all over the world.
In the case of New South Wales, its laws relating to juvenile justice include the Children's Courts Act, the Juvenile offences Act, the Children (Criminal Proceedings) Act, and the evidence (Children) Act, The Children (Community Service order) Act and the Children (Correctional Center) Act are meticulous in content and complete in system, which constitute a detailed and scientific framework of juvenile justice system.
Australia is sensitive to child protection, and the law stipulates that everyone should report a child where it is suspected of child abuse. Not even yelling at children. When the neighbor heard that you were mistreating the child, the police came right away. Once reported, parents can only complete the process step by step, as required by the court and the Child Welfare Protection Agency, during which parents may also need to attend a three-month parental training course. It is ultimately up to the judge to decide whether to send the child back to the parents for care.
In New Zealand, there is a Chinese family surnamed Ding with three children and a 13-year-old eldest son. Father Ding hit the child a few times because his child was naughty, and his hands were a little bruised. As a result, the son reported to the school that he had been raped by his father, and the next day the community and the police came and took away the other two children, the youngest of whom was only three months old.
Father Ding asked the forum for help:
It took two days to send the two young sons home, but they needed to stay with their friends and parents could not be alone with the children.
3. China and Australia have very different ideas.
Domestic violence against minors covers a wide range of areas, including yelling, scolding, corporal punishment and even cold violence. In Australia, police and schools attach great importance to domestic violence among minors.
Most Chinese parents may think it's okay to discipline their children, and it's normal to beat and scold them, and the police shouldn't step in. The opposite is true, however, that Australia explicitly forbids such incidents. Once a similar incident occurs, especially if a child is bruised or bruised, school teachers find that the first way to deal with it is to notify the Australian Department of Civil Affairs's child protection department and the police.
Sometimes, even birthmarks can be questioned by teachers because foreign children rarely have birthmarks, so many people don't know about birthmarks. Therefore, it is very important to communicate effectively with schools and communities and to seek timely help and advice from relevant departments when problems arise.
4, what if you encounter a similar problem?
Generally speaking, it is difficult for the perpetrator to deny domestic violence against minors if it is detected by the school and contacted with the police unless the child's injury is due to an accident. All the reasons for so-called "cultural differences" and "discipline of children" cannot be argued.
After receiving the report, the police and the child protection department will go to the school and the home of the minor for questioning, and it is likely that on the same day the perpetrator will be issued a safety notice to the perpetrator (Safety Notice), prohibiting the perpetrator from committing further violence against the victim. And limit the distance between the perpetrator and the victim (usually 5 meters) and between the perpetrator and the victim's home.
The case is usually held in the nearest junior court of the police station. The judge will decide whether the domestic violence injunction is approved according to the police application and the circumstances and the witness's transcript, and the respondent may choose to accept or oppose the injunction. Once the police intervene and become a public prosecution, and confirm that there is a domestic violence situation, then the parent must be correct, admit mistakes, and contact the lawyer as soon as possible to intervene to handle the case.
Therefore, new immigrant parents, must pay attention. Angry hit children, grades are not good hit children are not good, even leave the children in a place can not! You should know more about local laws and cultures, after all, living in other countries and abiding by their own laws.