Parents, politicians, and mental health experts are worried about the long-term repercussions the quarantine will have on children
, which has generated more than 55,000 signatures. “Although they’re full-fledged citizens, our girls and boys are not only confined to their homes, but their needs and rights have disappeared from the public debate around this crisis. It’s as if they did not exist,” the petition reads. It asks for “the possibility of being outdoors, receiving the sunlight,” mentioning that Germany, France and the Netherlands have respected the rights of children this way.
Spain is keeping 7 million children confined since 1 month ago. Here, children cannot go out under almost any circumstances. Police stop single mothers who go to the supermarket with their children or separated parents when they change custodyWhile the country is currently investigating the potential mental health repercussions of quarantining children, the news outlet interviewed experts who expressed concern.
“In a few months, the children who right now are scared and inhibited will start to manifest the traumas and real problems that their mental health is generating in this situation,” psychiatrist Diego Figuera Álvarez, from the Clínico San Carlos Hospital, told them. “What has happened is generating and will generate traumas both in infancy and adolescence,” he says.
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