# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百十七条の十二 (Article 817-12)

- Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号
- English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第八百十七条の十二 (Article 817-12)（親の責務等） — address `art-817-12`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-12
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### 第八百十七条の十二（親の責務等） — Responsibilities of Parents, etc.
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-817-12 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-12</sup>

    **第一項**  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。
    <sup>art-817-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-12/par-1</sup>
    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.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **第二項**  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。
    <sup>art-817-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/civil-code/art-817-12/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-817-12/par-2</sup>
    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.
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-004, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11