specific needs of children and elderly left behind as a ... - IOM Moldova

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- Sensitizing parents about the necessity to communicate on a
regular basis with their children, the experts suggest even disciplining
parents who do not call their children: “parents should
be obliged to call, otherwise they should be fined” (FG_EC_urban);
- Developing and implementing programmes on parental education:
“programme on parental education should start in school”
(III_EC_2);
- Making public through mass media the difficult cases/situations
experienced by children whose parents are abroad, the socalled
shock-therapy for parents: “mass-media does a great job by
promoting sad and dramatic stories and unveiling the extreme situations
that one can face” (III_EC_1);
- The NGO-s active in the family and child protection field should
organize information campaigns: “The NGO-s that are active in
this field should promote information campaigns” (III_EC_1);
- Involving all social actors in supervising and rendering support
to children left behind as a consequence of migration.
- Certainly, the multidisciplinary initiatives addressing children left
behind as a consequence of migration have better chances to succeed
and to cover a larger area if law amendments will be accompanied
by media, social and psychological changes and if it would
be possible to conduct a complex intervention in the case of a multilateral
phenomenon.
• Issues related to the appointment of a legal guardian for the elderly
left behind by children – migrants and their patrimonial relationship
The Republic of Moldova lacks any legal documents ensuring the
legal guardian of the elderly left behind by their children who are
abroad. Law no. 180-XVI on Labour Migration specifies restraints
only upon labour migration of persons who are not registered at the
relevant bodies (mayoralty, community social assistance service, etc.)
and who did not appoint a temporary guardian for their children
whereas it does not refer to the unprotected elderly left behind as a
consequence of migration.
In this context, labour migrants should be motivated by law to register
their helpless parents at the respective authorities (mayoralty,
community social assistance service, etc.), as it is done in the case of
children.
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