Marie Rose Moro
Tomorrows Children Publication date : January 5, 2010
Moving, migrating, leaving our homes have become increasingly common experiences. As a result, more, ever-younger children now have to cope with a variety of family structures, life-styles and social rules and a multiplicity of languages.
This situation, traditionally limited to migrant families, has in a few decades become our common lot — and if we wish to help our children grow and fully develop in a multiethnic, changing and complex world, we need to learn from these migrant families.
This is an appeal for adults to look at children — all children — in a new light and to stop fearing diversity.
Included here are:
• Concrete life stories dealing with migration, international adoption, interethnic couples, separated couples, families that travel or immigrate.
• Intercultural family histories so we can understand children's real needs and help them to grow up in a world where diversity will be the rule.
• Personal stories that give a better understanding of diversity and its significant implications, for families, schools and society.
Marie-Rose Moro is the author of Aimer ses enfants ici et ailleurs. A professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Paris-Descartes, she is the director of Hôpital Cochin's Maison de l'Adolescent, where she succeeded Marcel Ruffo, and the head of the department of child psychopathology at Hôpital Avicenne.
This situation, traditionally limited to migrant families, has in a few decades become our common lot — and if we wish to help our children grow and fully develop in a multiethnic, changing and complex world, we need to learn from these migrant families.
This is an appeal for adults to look at children — all children — in a new light and to stop fearing diversity.
Included here are:
• Concrete life stories dealing with migration, international adoption, interethnic couples, separated couples, families that travel or immigrate.
• Intercultural family histories so we can understand children's real needs and help them to grow up in a world where diversity will be the rule.
• Personal stories that give a better understanding of diversity and its significant implications, for families, schools and society.
Marie-Rose Moro is the author of Aimer ses enfants ici et ailleurs. A professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Paris-Descartes, she is the director of Hôpital Cochin's Maison de l'Adolescent, where she succeeded Marcel Ruffo, and the head of the department of child psychopathology at Hôpital Avicenne.