[Respect and tutelage of children in Christianity].
Christian religion, since its beginning, has been strongly interested about infant world, in defending and promoting it. Evangelic stories show Jesus' attention for children even against his disciples and the current culture of that very time that didn't consider them in a special way. Some of healing miracles and most of reanimation ones have, as characters, just children or young people. This particular care has continued after in ecclesial life by the creation of many charitable institutions for children and, recently, also in an sort of re-arrangement of Christian thought about bioethical problems, most of which are really shared with not Christian world. Nevertheless some of them present several patterns (an-encephaly, neonatal care, assisted reproduction, etc.) involving some specific considerations discussed by Authors.
Leone
Salvino
S
Medico e dottore in Teologia, Docente di medicina sociale alla LUMSA e di teologia morale alla Facoltà Teologica di Sicilia. salvino.leone@flashnet.it
Lo Giudice
Milena
M
D026688:Bioethical Issues; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D029221:Faith Healing; D006801:Humans; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000941:ethics; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous