兒童保護的危險因子──新聞事件之法社會敘事分析

Risk Factors in Child Protection: Narrative Socio-Legal Analyses of Internet News

107學年度下學期，在中正大學法律碩士班的「法律科際整合」課程，我們將團隊協力的問題導向學習主題設定為：「在臺灣這樣一個孩子是寶的法治繁榮社會，兒童是如何在層層法律和眾目睽睽的保護下，一不小心就失去了生命」。基於對兒童權利公約原則及內涵的認識，我們分組整理網路報導的兒童安全事件，然後對應我國法律相關規範內涵，進行法社會敘事分析。在兒童人權內涵、國內法與社會時事的反覆比對、思辨與討論後，我們發現法律中的理想童年圖像與社會實像顯有差距。本文希望能藉由新聞敘事的法社會分析，嘗試整理使幼小生命遭受無預警威脅的「危險因子」，藉以期許更多專業研究與作為，共同還給臺灣孩子一個平安的童年。

In the second semester of academic year 2018, we offered an LLM. course entitled “Interdisciplinary Studies of Law”. Our problem-based learning teamwork was set to discuss the question: “In the rule-of-law prosperous Taiwan society that children are coddled and treasured, why do we witness so many accidental deaths of young kids under the protection of caretakers and the law”. Based on child protection principles set in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, each team searched for targeted internet reports on child accidents, which had caused serious physical and/or mental harms to children. We carefully read the reported stories for making narrative analyses to locate “risk factors” that might have caused the unexpected accidents. We also tried to make socio-legal observations on the relevance of found “risk factors” to Taiwan laws. With this article, we hope to draw more expert attention to conduct systematic child death reviews, from which effective measures may be developed to return a safe childhood to Taiwan children.