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

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the girl cannot always have the power to stand living with her father and she
may try to run away from home, the person who takes care of the child calls
the mother and when she comes back she comes to the police and asks them
to arrange the situation with the father” (FG_EC_urban); “They address the
police only when they have problems, only when school is not able to take
care of the child or of his parent, that’s when the police gets involved” (FG_
EC_urban). Experts also claim that services provided by Child and Family
Protection Departments are not sufficiently used: “Parents are aware of the
existence of the Municipal Directorate for Child Rights Protection, but they
do not address it” (FG_EC_urban).
The Local Council for Children Rights Protection represents another
important element of a child support network. According to experts, it
works more efficiently in the urban area: “We talk monthly or when it is necessary.
In Chisinau the situation is rather different because every district has
sector meetings, there’s the council for child rights protection and a municipal
directorate” (FG_EC_urban).
In conclusion it can be mentioned that the support network for children
whose parents migrated are less developed. Children as well as experts
mentioned the necessity to extend services provided by psychologists, due
to the harmful effects of the children’s separation from their parents on
the children’s psychological condition. The children face multiple psychological
issues and there is a necessity to meet their need for communication
and empathic relationships. Institutions that are part of the support
network do not have well established directions of working with children
left behind as a consequence of parental migration and it is necessary to
harmonize the targeting of their activities to ensure parents and children’s
protection.
• Deviant behaviour
Deviance and juvenile delinquency represents the expression of a number
of actions and behaviour that strongly oppose the norms of living in a
family, institution or society. Information on factors that favours juvenile
delinquency is extremely valuable for the success of prevention activities
as well as in the psychological intervention of children. Things revealed
by a teenager who lives with his grandmother after his mother migrated
abroad for work, denote the impact that parents’ migration has on a child’s
deviant behaviour. Analyzing from a psychological point of view the behaviour
and facts revealed by this teenager and his grandmother’s stories
it can be deduced that the situation represents an absolutely logical and
negative consequence of the conflict between the forces and factors that
determined it.
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