China improves family education to handle juvenile delinquency

BEIJING - Chinese authorities have unveiled a guideline to leverage the role of families in educating juveniles involved in legal cases.

The guideline, jointly issued by the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the All-China Women's Federation, and the China working committee of care for the next generations, calls for guidance on the parents or other guardians who fail in their guardianship or cultivation of minors.

The document urges strengthened guidance to single-parent families, stepfamilies, adoptive families and rural families with left-behind minors to improve family education.

The guidance will help minors' parents or other guardians learn how to cultivate minors' legal literacy, modify improper education methods and reshape family relations, the document said.