# 民法 / Civil Code — 第八百二十一条 (Article 821) - 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: 第八百二十一条 (Article 821)（子の人格の尊重等） — address `art-821` - Text in force since: 2026-06-24 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-821 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-821 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第八百二十一条（子の人格の尊重等） — Respect for the Child's Personality, etc. caption: machine translation, not official art-821 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-821 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-821 **第一項** 親権を行う者は、前条の規定による監護及び教育をするに当たっては、子の人格を尊重するとともに、その年齢及び発達の程度に配慮しなければならず、かつ、体罰その他の子の心身の健全な発達に有害な影響を及ぼす言動をしてはならない。 art-821/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-821/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-821/par-1 A person exercising parental authority must, in providing care and education under the preceding Article, respect the child's personality and give consideration to the child's age and degree of development, and must not engage in corporal punishment or other words or conduct that have a harmful effect on the sound development of the child's mind and body. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - art-821/par-1: 前条 → 民法 第八百二十条 (Article 820), art-820 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-820 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-820 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 民法 第八百二十四条の三第一項（監護者の権利義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-824-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-824-3/par-1 - 民法 第八百五十七条第一項（未成年被後見人の身上の監護に関する権利義務） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-857/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-857/par-1 --- ## 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-20261011T170941-005, translated 2026-10-12 - This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11