China's Family Education Promotion Law: Family Governance, the Responsible Parent and the Moral Child.

This article analyzes China's Family Education Promotion Law (FEPL), effective from January 2022, which elevates family education from a private matter to a state concern aimed at promoting responsible parenting aligned with national ideals. The FEPL codifies parental duties to foster minors' moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic, and labor development, emphasizing socialist values, traditional culture, and the concept of "parenting in accordance with the law." It addresses prevalent substandard parenting practices—such as neglect, overindulgence, and inadequate educational methods—within the context of China's familism and national policies on "suzhi" (population quality) and "shuangjian" (double alleviation of academic burdens). The law empowers state authorities to intervene through admonishments and family education orders when parents fail in their duties, aiming to integrate family governance into broader social policy while maintaining parental rights and guardianship.