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Article 817-12Responsibilities of Parents, etc.

第八百十七条の十二(親の責務等)

Parents must, in order to ensure the sound mental and physical development of the child, respect the child's personality and raise the child with consideration for the child's age and degree of development, and must also support the child so that the child can maintain a standard of living equivalent to their own.

父母は、子の心身の健全な発達を図るため、その子の人格を尊重するとともに、その子の年齢及び発達の程度に配慮してその子を養育しなければならず、かつ、その子が自己と同程度の生活を維持することができるよう扶養しなければならない。

Regardless of whether or not they are in a marital relationship, parents must respect each other's personality and cooperate with each other, in the interests of the child, with regard to the exercise of rights or performance of duties concerning the child.

父母は、婚姻関係の有無にかかわらず、子に関する権利の行使又は義務の履行に関し、その子の利益のため、互いに人格を尊重し協力しなければならない。

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