” “” “In particular, the Pope recalls "the girls, more easily the victims of exploitation, moral blackmail and even all sorts of abuse", as well as the teenagers, the children without parents, who risk ending up "in the streets, left to their own devices, preys for unscrupulous exploiters" who "turn them into objects of physical, moral and sexual abuse". Benedict XVI does not stay silent in front of the "upsetting pictures of the big refugee camps all over the world". "How not to think that those little human beings have been born with the same legitimate expectations of happiness as any others?", he wonders. "These children and teenagers he states have had, as their only life experience, the compulsory residence ‘camps’ where they are segregated" and "have no chance to normally go to school". Hence his urge to "do even more to help them, by creating accommodation and educational facilities". The Pope finds that the young migrants live complex situations and difficulties "in their families and at school". For instance, in their families, "the traditional roles that existed in their native countries have disappeared he points out and conflicts often break out between the parents who have clung to their own culture and their children who have quickly acculturated to the new social settings". (continued)” “” “” “
