A study group of government officials and scholars is preparing a report that calls for establishing a legal provision to restrict parental rights as a way to curb child abuses, sources said Wednesday.
The group is proposing a provision under the Child Welfare Act, given repeated cases in which parents forcibly retrieved children who had been placed in institutions because they had been abused.
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