A more complicated situation arises when parents cannot find a common denominator on the issues concerned and moreover, they are in hostile relations and do not want to reach a compromise. In such situations, State interference should be as effective and precise as possible to ensure that personal conflicts between parents do not affect the child's well-being. However, at present it is observed that the intervention of the authorities leads to a worsening of the situation rather than to its improvement. In the opinion of the Children's Ombudsman, the serious situation on this segment is favored by the imperfection of the legislation on establishing the schedules of meetings with parents and the intervention mechanism in such circumstances. Firstly, national law does not regulate the procedure for drawing up the schedule of meetings, nor it does give it legal power until it has been imposed by a court decision. Secondly, the situation remains uncertain, as the authorities do not have a national intervention mechanism, so the mode of action reverts to the discretionary right of each individual authority, which leads to the actions being segmented and not uniform. It also attests the irresponsibility of parents to ensure a child-friendly environment. In most cases there are situations of conflict between the parents, and the child becomes a currency in the process of "fighting" of adults, and such situations have a negative impact on the physical and mental health of the child. Ensuring compliance with the schedule of meetings becomes more complicated if the parent, in whose custody the child is, goes to live with the child in another State. This situation highlights a conceptual-legal problem - the court establishes the child's domicile with one of the parents, but the court cannot impose on the parent the obligation to remain on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. However, the respect of the right to free movement of the adult is ensured, but the child's right to communicate with both parents is violated. Although the standards for the protection of children's rights stipulate the obligation of the State to ensure in the shortest possible time the child's contact with the parent whose contact was restricted, in practice this obligation often cannot be fulfilled, not being established / provided the mechanism / procedure of realization. In this regard, the People's Advocate for Children's Rights recommends the State to review the legal framework in the field of establishing the schedule of meetings with parents and to strengthen the mechanism for enforcing court decisions with an element of extraneousness from the segment analyzed above. Another area that came to the attention of the Children's Ombudsman during the reporting period was the observance of the rights of children on the streets. That issue has been included in 100

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