Kids need right care when legal guardians lost

A LOCAL COURT in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, recently terminated the guardianship of a 13-year-old girl's parents, who it deemed incapable of taking care of her, and entrusted her to the local community. Beijing News commented on Friday:

The 13-year-old's drug-addicted father has been absent for years and her mother is suffering from mental illness, while other relatives either refuse to adopt her or lack the capacity to do so, thus the transfer of her parents' guardianship to the community is justifiable in accordance with relevant rules of the General Provisions of the Civil Law, which were passed on Mar 15 and will take effect on Oct 1.

There have been precedents for rescinding parents' guardianship of their kids. In November, a man in Suqian, East China's Jiangsu province, lost the guardianship of his son after forcing his son to beg. A woman from Taizhou, another city in the province, was recently given the same punishment after she knowingly left her newly born daughter in a dustbin.