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

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