translate English to French: This standard practice of sending children far away from their families, whatever their level of ability or situation (whether or not they had disabilities, and regardless of whether they were orphans or had been abandoned), and the systematic use of institutions3, led to what, collectively, has to be regarded as a dramatic situation and, in individual terms, to the appearance of numerous institutional syndromes.
Cette pratique courante d’éloignement de la famille quel que soit le niveau d’aptitude ou la situation de l’enfant (handicapé ou non, orphelin ou abandonné), ce recours systématique à l’institution3, va déboucher sur ce qu’il faut considérer, collectivement, comme une histoire dramatique, et, au plan individuel, sur l’apparition de nombreux syndromes institutionnels.