Family in the woods, the expert speaks: «Theirs is a revolutionary choice»

Family in the woods, speaks the psychiatrist Tonino Cantelmi, consultant to Catherine Birmingham and Nathan Trevallion, who not only defends them with a sword drawn, but underlines the message given by their lifestyle: «I asked myself why the progressive world and part of the Catholic world have not grasped the extraordinary drive for innovation and perseverance to emerge from research in an “off grid laboratory”. Reading Catherine’s book we can glimpse a political manifesto: radical environmentalism and respect for nature, extreme pacifism and the rejection of conflict, the harsh criticism of an opulent, wasteful, overheated and belligerent society.” – photo | video

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Catherine Birmingham, a 45-year-old Australian, former riding teacher, and her English husband Nathan Trevallion, 51, a cabinetmaker, lived with their three children, an eight-year-old and six-year-old twins, in a former farmhouse surrounded by animals and silence, a few kilometers from the sea of Vasto, in the province of Chieti, in a forest of Palmoli. Now they defend their life choice (Today)

They had to be listened to

The first Italian researcher to investigate in depth the impact of digital technologies on the human mind and at the head of the ministerial institute for the health of migrants, Cantelmi tells everything to Corriere della Sera. And he believes that mistakes were made on the couple: «I argued that their life laboratory needed to be listened to. Quickly prepare your children to complete the story of Catherine and Nathan and it will be completely finished. This is the accusation I make against all of us. Yes, Nathan and Catherine have to change something: they have voluntarily agreed to undergo a psychological path to support parenting.” According to the lawyer Simone Pillon, he could finally be reunited with his children by the end of the month.

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Children are loved

And the professor recalls: «Their life plan is the result of a long journey, which saw Catherine travel from Australia to Germany, Japan, Denmark and Indonesia. She confronted cultures, traditions, religions, and slowly changed her point of view. Here, for Nathan. Both have become aware that our society is entering a tunnel characterized by dehumanization, the pulverization of relationships, inequality and the dominance of technocracy.” As for their children: «Children first of all need to be loved deeply. And these children are. Does it seem acceptable to you to destroy love and harmonious life for a dry bath?”