Meloni on the 'family in the woods': 'I am speechless'

"The latest news regarding the Trevallion family, the "family in the woods", leaves me speechless." This is stated on social media by the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni. "After deciding to entrust the social services with three children who lived with their parents in nature and to place them in a foster home, the Juvenile Court of L'Aquila has ruled to remove the mother from the protected facility where she was allowed to stay with her children and to separate the minors as well. It is a decision - writes the Prime Minister - that inflicts on the children an additional, heavy trauma, after the separation from the father. My thoughts are with the children and their parents affected by an absurd chain of decisions with a clear ideological tone."

"The task of the Juvenile Courts is to protect children and adolescents in cases of mistreatment, abuse, or abandonment, acting in the best interest of the minor. And where would the best interest of the minor be, when children are removed from their father, then from their mother, to spend months and months in a foster home, increasingly alone, because the judges of the Juvenile Court do not share the lifestyle of the family? It is not the role of justice, and of the State in general, to replace parents, to decide how children should be educated, to impose a lifestyle based on standards that are clearly ideological," the Prime Minister continues in a long post on Facebook. "Because children do not belong to the State: children - the Prime Minister emphasizes - belong to moms and dads, and a State that claims to replace them has forgotten its limits. A judiciary that claims to replace them has forgotten its limits."