EDITORIAL

Living and not be ashamed to be happy!

In a increasingly technified, fast and global world it was born a year ago the first International Congress of Child and Adolescent (I CISCA). Thereafter, now in 2010, CISCA II responses to positive repercussions that reverberated after the end of the First Congress. Well, in this world of extreme appreciation of the plasma TVs, "Big Brothers" in which the privacy of families and even individuals are being questioned, it appears Congress calling for the child and adolescent time to play, share, grow.

Now, some would say, how could we still do not think to industrialize growth, put our children in magic machines and reduce the time required for the growth and development? How could we do not believe in selling cans in the love of parents and grandparents? It would be profitable and would save time if we found on the shelves of supermarkets, or specialty stores in malls, recyclable cans small, medium or large version of love in the girls' mother (maybe in pink packaging), or paternal version for girls and boys (probably offered in blue packaging).

In this case, would then be allowed to ask: would not it be more interesting to let the kids in the morning at the gates of day care centers accredited with the commitment to get them back in the afternoon, after work, have turned into teenagers or adults?

So we would not have the "wear" to feed them, change them, monitor their sleep, not have to hug or kiss our children, nor in correcting their antics, school lessons. We avoid worrying about scratches, coughs and fevers of morning would not need to wait for them until the wee hours after treats, meet with their boyfriends, trips, sessions of theater or cinema. Perhaps some would argue that. I believe that there may be those who accept the complete elimination of individual experiences, or replacement, for virtual experiments; extinction of affection, ethics, social rights and individual on account of the risks inherent in each situation. Perhaps some would argue, or at least admit that children should be at work, argue that children and adolescents should attend, without further questioning, police reports quoted by the programs of the type "three A" (Audience! Here-Now.)

Anyway, this world colonized by automata is not the proposal of the CDH neither of the organizers of CISCA II. Instead, the organizers of the II CISCA recognize that the affirmation and inclusion of people truly adult in our society through the right to grow, develop and fully experiencing every moment of life by accepting individual particularities in physical environments, ethically and religiously respectful and democratic.

Within the next four days of activities, health is not discussed as the mere absence of disease since, as an inalienable right, is much more than that, is the ability for individuals to own and enjoy, without reservation, the social and scientific achieved collectively by humanity. The challenge for each Poster, Oral Presentation, Lecture, Coordinated Activity; each physical space for the event, manned by two or more participants, be they professionals or students, will be to understand and show possibilities of overcoming the ills found at the interfaces between the reality often harsh and exclusionary of life and the needs of children and adolescents. Everything, just like the artist would say to live and not be ashamed to be happy!

Paulo Rogério Gallo

Presidente do II CISCA
Congresso Internacional de Saúde da
Criança e do Adolescente