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Interdisciplinary Studies Between Law and Education. Mafia’s Children: Removal and Cultural Contamination Against Indoctrination, Violence, and Oppression
Rossella Marzullo ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5The paper looks at children raised in mafia families in Italy, who are taught violence, revenge and gender stereotypes. It asks how these children can be guaranteed the right to education and the chance to become citizens who learn democratic values. It points to a recent judgment of the Juvenile Court of Reggio Calabria that revokes parental responsibility where harm to children is proven. The author argues that removing children from this environment lets them discover new ways of life and connect with society.
Key points
- Children in mafia families are educated in violence, revenge and gender stereotypes.
- The Juvenile Court of Reggio Calabria has ordered revocation of parental responsibility where injury to children is proven.
- Limiting parental rights is meant to stop the transmission of harmful cultural values from father to son.
- Boys are expected to follow their fathers, and girls are sometimes compelled to marry the sons of other bosses to bind clans together.
- Removal can let children discover new realities and a new structure connecting them to society.
Limitations
Only a short abstract is available, with no data, methods or follow-up on what happens to the children after removal. It cannot tell us whether removal actually improves outcomes.
Abstract
In mafia families, children are educated in violence, revenge, and gender stereotypes. The research question is: What can be done to guarantee these children the right to education, the right to become citizens, to learn democratic values, the right to be men without killing and women without obeying? The studies carried out have discovered a possible answer in the recent judgment of the Juvenile Court of Reggio Calabria, which has mandated the revocation of parental responsibility in cases in which injury to children is proven. These limitations to parental rights have the purpose of allowing institutions to stop a system of behavior that is harmful to the proper development of the personality of the child and that transmits negative cultural values from father to son. This way can play an important role for democracy in creating the context for progressive social change. Man acquires morality from the environment in which he grows, so it is really dangerous for children growing up in families in which boys are predestined to follow in their father's footsteps and girls are sometimes compelled to marry the sons of other bosses, binding separate clans together through blood relations. So, by removal, it is possible for mafia children to discover new realities and new way of life, by new structure that connects them to the society. Socrates in the Platonic Apology says that laws educate and make better youth generations.