2 Responsibility of Parents and Children: Best Interest of Child

1. Parents' responsibilities: maintenance (food, care, education, health — by means, till majority-and-beyond in the defined cases); nurture-and-protection (the Children's Act 2075's parental-duty catalogue); the equal parental standing (both parents — not the father's patriarchal paramountcy); the abuse-and-neglect prohibitions (the Children's Act's offence provisions; the child's removal-and-alternate-care machinery); 2. Children's responsibilities: the duty to maintain the aged-and-infirm parents (the maintenance claim of parents against children — the Code's reciprocal duty; the social-and- legal practice of the parents' maintenance suits); 3. The best-interest principle: the CRC's Article 3 standard codified in Nepal by the Children's Act 2075 — the courts' and authorities' obligation in every action concerning the child; the best-interest factors (the child's age-and-needs, the parents' capacity, stability, the child's own view at discernment); the constitutional floor (Article 39: the child's rights catalogue — identity, nurture, protection from every form of exploitation, child-friendly justice — Constitutional Law-II's Unit 2 list).