Why, after 10 ten years since the communist
system's fall, is it still possible to find handicapped and severely-ill children, crowded in insalubrious rooms situated 30 km away from the most important city?
Why, after 4 years since the annulment of Law
3/1970 which "created" the institutions organized for the "minor's protection", are there still hundreds of children placed in institutions every month?
Why
a woman without revenues and with serious health problems, having 5 handicapped children, all being under the public administration's care, is having her sixth baby?
Why
are children placed in institutions every year, if there still exists the profession of maternal assistant?
Why
are 16-year-old children, who are not able to speak, and hardly communicate, sitting at their desks with an empty blackboard in front of them, taking, for example, a Geography lesson?
Why
don't we take the normal and natural way concerning the issues of our children with difficulties?Because
the institutions established under Law 3/1970 acquired permanence and tradition in our society.
Because
we don't have the possibility to manage a coherent prevention activity at the community level and we have limited resources to support the alternatives to institutionalization.
Because
we lack child care staff and a clear educational and family planning policy.
Because
we are not able to convince our own administration system about the importance and need of more professional maternal assistants, for our children's sake and for saving money.
Because
the special educational system allows children to pass from one grade to another, in order to avoid the reorganization of personnel and the adjustment of the educational planning to the needs of the children.
Because the concepts of "normality" and "natural" in child protection come from competence, tradition, material resources, heart and devotion. In order to achieve all these, we must keep working.
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