In Russia, it was proposed to abolish juvenile justice and disperse the guardianship authorities

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of Russia Pyotr Tolstoy proposed to disperse the guardianship authorities, because they have become "a bureaucratic machine with a juvenile ideology borrowed in the 90s as a Western cargo cult."

Tolstoy said that the current guardianship authorities do not meet the needs of society and it is impossible to reform them. We need to dissolve them and create a new structure, he added.

“All the efforts of these former teachers, former law enforcement officers in small towns and villages, are aimed at fulfilling a certain plan to remove children from the family. They will receive money for computers and new furniture in their offices, depending on how many children they take away, ”Tolstoy stressed during a working meeting of the chairman of the patriarchal commission on family issues with the State Duma deputies.

I would like to add that from a legal point of view, it is completely illegal to introduce the norms of Anglo-Saxon case law and western juvenile justice into Russian legislation and judicial practice, based on traditional Russian law with the reception of the norms of Roman law. Now the question is being discussed, as a protection of Russian families from juvenile justice, to recognize Russian families as a subject of law.

Autocratic and bureaucratic empire building seems to be the norm where ever you live. Some of the horror stories from child protective agencies in the states would make most people sick if they knew what was actually going on in way to many cases.

That is fantastic, we could do with some of that. I know the issues around child welfare are tough. There are some cases when parents are no longer up for the job, but how the system has become seams to be infected and too far over reaching in its authority.

Just how adversarial the Department of Child Protection has become against the parent/s has many disturbing stories. The funding structure does create conflicts of interest. How some reports of parents that don't get their children back within two years can have these children get their name changed and shipped off interstate is disturbing. With the way the legal system is, unless you have a lot of cash it can take a couple of years to get your case heard.

There have been some improvements made to the system from what it was in the past. Some really disturbing reports going on from back then. Not all of it is bad, there are some good people in the system. As for how much the dark side still has a grip on the system is shrouded is secrecy. A lack of accountability is troublesome. Just how cornered the legal advocate for the child is by the system is a problem.