Florencia Gattari

Stories of girls and boys whose rights to live with their families were violated. First- and third-person accounts that show wounded childhoods and care processes, and how difficult it is to grow up without supportive bonds.

A human tragedy on the backdrop of a legal and medical scandal which in 2007 lead to legal action against the Argentinean state before the UN Human Rights Commission and a verdict of guilty in 2011. The mentally and physically handicapped 16-year-old girl Laura had been raped by her uncle in 2006. But a legal abortion which had already been officially granted at the request of her mother, Vicenta, was opposed by lawyers and doctors.