Better promote and enforce law to protect children

AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL in Hanzhong, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, was beaten to death by her father, because she refused to apologize for coming home late. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

Arrested on charges of child abuse and intentional injuring of a minor, the abusive father in Shaanxi is not alone in dismissing the fact that beating their children is domestic violence.

According to a 2014 survey by the women's federation of South China's Guangdong province, over 37 percent of the surveyed residents still believe there is nothing wrong in beating their own kids.