and do not meet the main criteria to correspond to good practices in the field of protection of children without parental care. Children without parents are often distrustful of adult intervention in their lives. Their abusive treatment, admitted by adults in society, makes them not want to give up their autonomy, gained, although limited. State policies must also take into account the particularities of child development, the strengths of children and the positive contributions that children make to their own survival and development and that of their peers, families and communities. Applying this approach is not only a moral and legal imperative, but also the most appropriate approach for identifying and implementing sustainable solutions for children separated from their parents. Another issue examined by the Children's Ombudsman during 2019 was the process of deinstitutionalization of children in the Orhei and Hincesti Temporary Placement Centers for children and their inclusion in the family environment. Although this issue was addressed by the Children's Ombudsman in 2017 in the Thematic Report on "Assessment of the situation of children placed in boarding schools for children with mental disorders in Orhei and Hincesti in the process of deinstitutionalization168”, the situation did not change. It should be noted that, according to data presented by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Protection169 the number of children who are placed in the Orhei and Hincesti Temporary Placement Centers is significantly lower than the number of adults who are there. Placement institution children adults Orhei Placement Center 35 (boys) 162 Hincesti Placement Center 30 (girls) 219 Thus, the Children's Ombudsman remarks that in the institution predestined for the placement of children with severe disabilities there is currently a much larger number of adults than children, which is contrary to international Recommendations170 in the field of child protection and can endanger the life and health of children. The presence of a large number of adult beneficiaries in this institution is proof of the inefficient actions of the State, in order to deinstitutionalize and 168 http://ombudsman.md/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/raport_diz_2017_red_0.pdf MHLSP letter no. 023/917 of February 13, 2019 170 https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/TBSearch.aspx?Lang=en&TreatyID=5&DocTypeID=11 169 97