Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced a result of research on the actual condition of the child abuse in 2005. The various factors of the parents and the family exist in the background of the child abuse. The parents of the mental disorder and parents with the unbalanced personality exceed 50%. Many families are isolated from the society, and there are many poor families. The investigation of Tokyo Metropolitan Government shows that it is the most effective child abuse prevention countermeasure to help the family by the welfare policy. It is necessary to provide a new law for the protection of child life from a serious child abuse. Main contents are as follows. 1 The parental authority clauses of the Civil Law cause the people to misunderstand. We should revise it in accordance with the ideology of the parents' duty. 2 We must set up a guardianship system regarding the nonage guardianship which is founded by the public institution. 3 The family court should order the temporary protection which is provided in the Child Welfare Law. The family court should order the compulsory admittance investigation which is provided in the Child Abuse Prevention Law and the approach injunction as well. 4 The child consultation office exercises its duties together with the court and the police offices. It plays three roles by itself. We should specialize the child consultation office for the social work organization. 5 The number of social workers for the child consultation office is limited. The number of social workers in Japan is less than that of Germany or France, which indicates one out of ten. We must increase the number of social workers as soon as possible.
