Mafia children: From future to past. Knowing other realities to learn freedom

In mafia families, children are educated in violence, revenge, and gender stereotypes. Whatcan be done to guarantee these children the right to education, the right to become citizens, theright to be men without killing and women without obeying, and the right to know the valueof democracy and legality? One possible answer lies in the recent judgment of the JuvenileCourt of Reggio Calabria, which has mandated the revocation of parental responsibility in allcases in which serious injury to the child is proven. These limitations to parental rights havethe principal purpose of allowing institutions to stop a system of behaviour that is harmful tothe proper development of the personality of the child and that transmits negative culturalvalues from father to son and from mother to daughter.