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Abandon of underaged
 Discontent of the minors is vividly seen and its causes are numerous: the collapse of the family, the lack of stimulus to school education, the crash of educational methodology, the refusal to study and diffusion of illiteracy, attractiveness of well-being and consumer sendings. Thus, a squall of social temptations that make the process of upbringing more difficult comes down on a teenager.
The minor is in the state of crisis, but the structures which are aimed to perform upbringing functions are in the state of even greater crisis – they are family and school. What can be demanded from a child who lives together with elderly grandparents, whose parents have either emigrated or divorced or live in poverty? School is at the same situation; it does not stimulate education and is not able to support teaching stuff, which, because of extremely low salaries, prefers to emigrate.
When a minor suffers refusal or isolation, he is compelled to act by his own, practice self-upbringing without having good examples, which are substituted by sendings from a far-away society of well-being.
The collapse of the category of young generation represents a dramatic situation for Moldavian society, which risks to be left without the future, the children of the country can be left to the mercy of fate, doomed to loneliness and emigration.
To this the state of poverty should be added, which begets humiliation and sufferings, which limits the child in choice, feeds the society with dreams, plans, wishes. The child is attracted by the neighbouring society from which he gets consumer sendings, the temptation to which is difficult to resist.
There is such a phenomenon on Moldavian streets as homeless children. Here we have to distinguish two notions – “street children” and “the children of the street”.
There are no “street children” in Moldova, but are “children of the street” there.
“A street child” is the one who does not maintain links with his family, he is alone and lives independently providing himself by stealing, begging, by charity of some organizations. His only perspective is the street.
“A child of the street” is the one, who still has a family, but it is far away, maybe somewhere in the village, the family is very poor, the child quarrelled with his family or does not stand his parents who are addicted to alcohol. In this case the family is something that the child does not consider as positive, the family does not give the child directions in the system of real values of life; the child does not recognize his family and prefers to stay apart from it; or from time to time child returns to the family, but remains in the state of conflict with it.
 The condition of an abandoned child is identical, but the methods of interference to his life change because measures undertaken to return “a child of the street” are not directed to a child, their aim is the family, which needs rehabilitation and support, so that the child could return into it.
Thus, it is affirmed again that the process of returning abandoned children to the families has an immediate aim – the child himself, but there are also a final aim – the family, which exists in reality and must turn back, by means of great efforts, to its function of upbringing children.
There are realities surrounding the child, which makes him realize the hardships of life and bring him to understanding what kind of projects it is necessary to plan for the future: 14.000 minors are in different institutes of Moldova, prisons for minors are always overfilled, international adoptions are slowed down and bureaucratic; taking alcohol and hallucinogenic substances begins at an early age; many children suffer psychosomatic delay of development, which can be easily subdued under the conditions of proper development of a child.
It is distressing to see children collecting food and clothes they need at city garbage disposals.
Indeed, concurrently with those discontented by their life, there are a big number of minors who pass their educational and upbringing way, in spite of the unreliable assistance, in the conditions that do not promise good perspectives for the future.
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