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 Children Abandonment Prevention and Family Reintegration

    by:
  • Gabriela Alexandrescu
  • Daniela Nicolăescu (The General Secretariat of the Romanian Government, no. 1, Piaţa Victoriei, district 1, Bucharest, Romania, Phone: 0040 723 534 655, E-mail: nicoldana@yahoo.com)


By social services system intended to child’s welfare, respecting him and treating him as a human value are the rights the society gives to children and childhood as a fundamental step in forming the personalities of the future adults. In the context where in Romania the incidence of child abandonment grew alarmingly, mass-media presenting more and more often cases of child abandonment in care institutions and hospitals, certain measurements of preventing the number of children at risk of abandonment were taken. Starting with 1990, Romania signed a series of international conventions for child protection area - Haga Convention by Law no. 84/1994, recommendation no. 12286/1996 of European Parliament Council regarding European child strategy, recommendation no. (94) 14 of European Council regarding integral family policies and the adaptation of the law regarding children’s rights.


Keywords: child protection, welfare, society, social services system