goo blog サービス終了のお知らせ 

文明のターンテーブルThe Turntable of Civilization

日本の時間、世界の時間。
The time of Japan, the time of the world

The Children and Families Agency Is Mocked as a Local Branch of the Red Network

2025年06月11日 17時01分02秒 | 全般

◎The Children and Families Agency Is Mocked as a Local Branch of the Red Network—Just Like South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
July 8, 2023
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter, based on the important article by Ryoko Ikeda published in Hanada Plus.

◎The Inside Story Behind the “40% Child Support Collection Goal by 2031”
What I had long questioned was this: why is it that, while the Japanese government constantly imports systems used in foreign countries, it attempts to establish a uniquely Japanese system only when it comes to family law?
That question was resolved completely after reading this article and comparing it with the North Korean Constitution.
The answer is simple—they are not modeling Japan’s policies on the West, but on North Korea.

If things continue on this trajectory, Prime Minister Kishida’s “unprecedented countermeasures for declining birthrates,” announced on January 4, will likely become nothing more than a replica of North Korea’s child and family policy.
If the goal is to address declining birthrates, the first priority should be policies aimed at reducing the rapidly rising rate of people not getting married.
This is because in Japan, where the number of children born out of wedlock is very low, children will not be born unless young people get married.

Furthermore, given that now one in three couples divorces, policies aimed at reducing the divorce rate must also be considered.
This is because the number of children will not increase under the prevalence of single-parent households.
Yet there is no sign that the ruling party or the government is attempting to implement such countermeasures.
On the contrary, they are proposing policies that go in the exact opposite direction.

On April 25, Masanobu Ogura, Minister for Child Policies, announced that the Children and Families Agency will expand its “Divorced and Separating Parents Support Model Project,” setting a government target for 2031: to increase the percentage of single-mother households receiving child support payments to 40%.
It is worth noting that the Children and Families Agency, headed by Minister Ogura, is mocked—just like South Korea’s Ministry of Gender Equality and Family—as a local branch of the Red Network.

Ogura’s proposal could not exist unless it were premised on the maintenance of the current sole custody system and the refusal to enact policies that would curb the rise in single-parent households.
In other words, under the pseudo-joint custody system, a large number of parents will continue to be stripped of parental rights and prevented from seeing their children—even in the absence of domestic violence.

It is clearly unworkable to create a legal system that forces a parent, stripped of custody and completely barred from seeing their child, to continue paying child support.
If one attempts to preserve the sole custody system, it is logically impossible to mandate child support payments.
And yet, they still want to impose child support obligations even on parents who have lost custody.
That is why they are now attempting to present such a “goal” instead, as a political compromise.

◎“Solving Child Poverty” Is Mere Rhetoric
If the proposed Civil Code revision bill by the Ministry of Justice were a genuine joint custody law, and if it included a legal requirement to settle child support arrangements at the time of divorce, then 100% of child support would be paid from the moment the law is enacted.
There would be no need whatsoever for a target like “40% by 2031.”

The numerical target announced by Minister Ogura is not only substantively terrible but also procedurally outrageous—it is an attempt to block the Ministry of Justice’s forward-leaning efforts to implement true joint custody.
It is a flagrant overreach.
Justice Minister Ken Saito is being treated with utter contempt.

Why did the Red Network, which had hijacked the Children and Families Agency, have Minister Ogura make this announcement now—before the Ministry of Justice had even drafted a bill?
Because once the Legal Affairs Council of the Ministry of Justice issues its official recommendation, the Red Network will no longer be able to interfere in the bill-drafting process.
If that happens, the LDP’s Legal Affairs Committee and other groups may become involved and submit a genuine “joint custody bill” to the Diet, completely separate from the neutered version proposed by the Council.
The Red Network is trying to prevent that outcome.

Just as in North Korea’s family law system, where fathers are completely denied access to their children but still compelled to pay child support, the Red Network is now trying to use the Children and Families Agency—rather than the Ministry of Justice—to control the post-divorce legal framework.

Ogura’s announcement has revealed that the Red Network’s usual rhetoric about “solving child poverty” is nothing more than a smokescreen.
If they genuinely cared about rescuing children from poverty, they would never propose a policy that, even eight years from now, still envisions 60% of single-mother households receiving no child support at all.

(To be continued.)


最新の画像もっと見る

コメントを投稿

サービス終了に伴い、10月1日にコメント投稿機能を終了させていただく予定です。
ブログ作成者から承認されるまでコメントは反映されません。