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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to congratulate Mrs Batzeli on her report. The title of the report indicates that it is for women, the family and society as a whole to respond to juvenile delinquency. I should have liked men and fathers also to have featured in the title. Everyone is aware of their importance and I should like, in future, for us to be bold enough to mention the role of fathers openly in the various European policies.
Some very detailed statistics, particularly those of the Irish researcher Patrick Fagan of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, prove unquestionably that the emotional bond between parents and their children is formed in early infancy. Using evidence from police crime statistics, he demonstrates that the stronger the emotional bond is within the family, the less risk there is of juvenile delinquency.
The Lisbon Strategy lays down that 60% of very young children should have a nursery place. I am not questioning the wishes of young parents who want to pursue a professional career, but, in the light of the statistics and the parental experience that we all share, ladies and gentlemen, we must demand the highest possible quality for child care. Accessible child-care centres at an affordable price must be close to the workplace of one of the parents.
I thank the rapporteur for having stressed the importance of the quality of child-care establishments.
Eradicating violence among young people is a responsibility that the family and society must share. Society must establish the framework for State intervention. I refuse to depenalise and decriminalise acts of violence committed by young adults and I recommend that the European Union should set up an observatory on youth violence in order to institutionalise the education of young people."@en1
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