11 Amendments of Philippe JUVIN related to 2010/2017(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas every generation worries about its teenagers fears for them or in some cases just fears them; whereas a society’s moral values can be gauged simply by observing the way in which it treats its teenagers; whereas ‘it takes a village to bring up a child’, in other words the necessary supervision sometimes has to be brought to bear while young persons are being brought up by their parents within the familand it is the duty of the European Union and Member States to protect them from juvenile delinquency,
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas juvenile delinquency means a range of criminal offences punishable by national legislation that are committed by a minor, i.e. a young person who has not attained the age of legal majority,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas juvenile delinquency is no longer confined to acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, smoking, drinking, taking socially accepted drugs such as cannabis, the influence of cults, or suicidal acts, but it now also extt a new concern, but a growing problem affecting adolescendts to early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, for which the Internet has become a prime vehicle, dangerous games such as the ‘scarf game’ (voluntary strangulation), Jackass, happy slapping, gang rape, substances which are smokedof a younger and younger age; whereas it now covers a wide range of actions such as acts of violence against others, theft, gang crime, druink, or injected, self-harm, or the glorification of anorexia, excesses of which teenagers can be both instigators and victimsing, taking drugs, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography particularly through the Internet, and gang rape,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas these excesses are particularly worrying because they are often made easieris phenomenon is all the more worrying as it is often facilitated by new technologies, on account of the anonymity and hence impunity that they allow, and by the amount of spare time which so many teenagers have, bearing in mind that the period termed ‘adolescence’ now starts earlier and sometimes ends after a person has officially come of age,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas political activities should not, therefore, be centralised at the Community decision-making level; whereas, however, the EU could do more to support national initiatives by providing budgets for projects set up by governments, NGOs, local and national associations working for and with young people, or networks for the exchange of best practice and information,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the European Union and its Member States are still struggling to become the most dynamic knowledge- based economy in the world, whilst priorities have shifted to the need for a common-sense-based economy,deleted
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. Whereas international institutions, in addition to focusing on parental responsibility for children’s development and for building their human and social capacity, also stress the importance of parental vigilance and involvement to combat lawless behaviour by young people and the violence that they inflict on others; whereas, however, those institutions aredo not as explicit about the material conditions required in order to make for effective parenting and rule out direct or indirect discrimination against women and men on the labour market and the disadvantages that they would suffer if national social security systems were to be covertly undermined, whether immediately or with a time lagsufficiently address the other socio- economic factors involved in juvenile delinquency, such as failure at school, violence at school or the absence of prevention programmes supported by the public authorities,
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas although the family is unquestionably the first environment in which children are socialised in terms of their perception of the world and their behaviour, it is now no longer the only environment involved, nor indeed is its role invariably the most decisive; whereas other socio-economic factors play a role in influencing the child’s development,
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
T. whereas teenagers need to be allowed their say and hence given the opportunity to articulate the expectations which they have of society, in order to avoid blind, unthinking law-and-order policy, as exemplified by ‘Do you know where your child is now?’, a European project set up by the Slovak Government to raise parental awareness as a means of prevention,
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the appropriate national and international bodies to publish micro- and macroeconomic studies on the impact of effective parenting to build the human and social capacity of future generations in the light of measures to combatviolence and failure at school, the abandonment of parental responsibility and the role of associations working with young people in the field of juvenile delinquency;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the authorities to take the steps required to put woenable men and women in a better position to choose how they wish to achieve work-life balance in order to exercise their parental responsibility to more fruitful effectto balance work and family life so that they can assume their parental responsibilities; to introduce measures aimed at resolving the problems of failure at school and violence at school; to support the work of associations and NGOs working with young people on preventing juvenile delinquency;