Nanneke Quik-Schuijt
Nanneke Quik-Schuijt (born on November 2nd, 1942 in Wageningen) is a member of the Dutch Senate for the Socialist Party (SP).
Political Career
Before Nanneke Quik-Schuijt became a member of the Dutch Senate on June 12th, 2007, she was the Vice President District Court (juvenile court) in Utrecht from April 1990 until October 2007.
Education
Quik-Schuijt studied Rights at the University of Leiden from September 1961 until March 1967.
Notable Work
Nanneke Quik-Schuijt performs frequently in the media, in a personal capacity or as a mouthpiece for the group Children Judges of the Dutch Association for the Judiciary (Werkgroep Kinderrechters van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtspraak). She is worried about the quality of the youth care and the importance of the rights of the child. She is also concerned about the low number of male juvenile courts. Quik-Schuijt said that young children, who are just born, are 100% dependent on mothers and that legal action to enforce contact is usually not in the best interest of the child. In April 2007, she said in the newspaper De Pers that the child belongs to the one who takes care of the child. She campaigned as a juvenile court against the introduction of access rights in 1990. These views of Quik-Schuijt have been a topic of discussion in the public media and the press since the late eighties.
