About 50,000 children in Moldova remained without the care of a parent, while 25,0000 without both of the parents as these went abroad to work, the General Prosecutor’s Office said, quoted by Info-Prim Neo. The General Prosecutor’s Office scrutinized how the legislation on the protection of children’s rights was observed during 2007. It established that many of the children that remained without parental care did not go to school, abandoned the incomplete family or the family of the relatives and became vagrants. The zonal prosecutor’s ascertained that one third of the minors that committed wrongdoings in 2007 remained without parental care. A study revealed that many of these children consumed alcohol and took drugs. Last year, the police drew up 3,588 reports to hold administratively accountable the persons blamed for the fact that the minors consumed alcohol. During inspections, they determined that the child’s right to live in the family was often violated. A number of 1,507 children that abandoned families and school and were begging were accommodated at the Interior Ministry’s Temporary Placement Center for Minors in 2007. This is by 48 minors more than in 2006. No efficient measures aimed at diminishing vagrancy and begging are taken, the General Prosecutor’s Office ascertained. Most of the districts lack temporary placement and assistance centers and asylums for vagrant children. The prosecutors say that about 80% of the children placed in boarding schools have one or both of the parents, but are maintained in these institutions because they come from socially vulnerable families that do not have financial possibilities of bringing up and educating the children in the family. Over 2,000 families that cannot provide education are under the supervision of the guardianship and trusteeship bodies, while the police are supervising 1,250 socially vulnerable families. A number of 8,471 reports on administrative contravention were drawn up to punish the parents that did not fulfill their parental obligations to maintain and educate the children. The Prosecutor’s Office of Buiucani district said that an efficient measure of protecting the rights of the children neglected and abused by the parents was to take the children from the family for a certain period without depriving the parents of their rights. Temporary placement centers for children should be opened in order to implement such a measure. As in the previous years, the prosecutors identified violations of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which says that the child must be registered immediately after birth. The prosecutors ascertained frequent violations of the child’s right to dwelling. In many cases, the houses in which the children lived were sold illegally without providing them with another place of residence. The prosecutor’s intervened to restore the right to dwelling of the children, filing civil lawsuits for the purpose. After checking how the legislation on the rights of the people in psycho-neurological institutions is observed, it was established that the legal rights of the persons with psychiatric disorders and mental disabilities placed in psycho-neurological institutions are seriously violated. The institutions continue to work according to the old system of assistance and treatment for the persons with such diseases and have not been adjusted to their psychosocial needs owing to the administration rigidity. Such violations were also identified in the psycho-neurological institutions for children. According to prosecutors, the children should be informed about their rights and the possibilities of protecting themselves. The promotion and observance of children’s rights, the more serious attitude of the central and local public authorities towards the observance and protection of children’s rights, the care for their rights and interests should become a priority for all the central and local public administrations. The strengthening of the capacities and efforts of the relevant governmental and law enforcement agencies is absolutely necessary and inevitable for achieving these objectives, the General Prosecutor’ Office stated.