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Our children are not born with a knife in their hand

2025-08-15 20:21:49Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

By Adrian Thano

A morning like everyone else – stretch out his food, fix his shirt, kiss his forehead, and head off to school with the naïve thought that the world still maintains some security for your child.

But then, the phone rings. An unknown voice. An ambulance that never moves as fast as your mind. A crowd of people who won't let you get closer. And then, the silence that collapses the whole world in one breath.

A parent's heart breaks irreversibly: How did it happen? How could I not see it? What saved me?

Not only in Albania

Knife murders among teenagers are no longer rare cases neither in Albania nor in the world. They have become a disturbing phenomenon, a secret wave that carries deep social wounds. The culture of violence at this age is gaining ground.

According to the BBC, across Europe, especially in France and England, and even in the Swedish "paradise", knife crimes by children aged 10–17 have risen to very high percentages.

Albania in recent months has had several cases that have echoed in public opinion. Yesterday in Maliq was the next shock.

When violence sits on the school desk, hides on our children's phone, grows on social networks and explodes in a moment of blind anger with a knife in hand, we shoot anger in the air like a rifle and rightly demand accountability. To whom?

The biggest problem, I think, is that we as a society, worry after tragedy happens, but the solutions are always reactive, never preventive

Knives in children's hands

In our country, violence has long been perceived as survival, as an identity, as a status. In the absence of positive role models, many young people take as an example the brutality they see on social networks, in music, in films and videos that idealize "respect through fear".

But our children are not born with a knife in their hand. It was placed in the hands of those of us who did not know or were removed as busy with work, when they were losing themselves.

A child who kills is the product of a society that did not listen, educate and orient him. This means that when a 14-16 year old boy takes the knife with him to school or in the neighborhood, it is not just an impulsive act. It is the sign of a collective failure: of the family, of the school, of the state.

The school seems powerless and uninterested lately. In most cases, they do not grasp the situation at all. The principal of my son's school told me that there are not enough psychologists. It seems to me that school no longer even has a life orientation.

Just lessons and assignments, while the children within themselves are in disintegration. The school fails to detect even when a teenager suffers from depression, much less when he is on the verge of an act of violence.

The state is passive, delayed, unprepared. We do not see serious prevention structures, nor educational punishments. There are no serious emotional education programs in schools, and we generally lack a public culture that promotes dialogue and dignity.

Even the media often treat the news as a sensation, while social networks chew up violence as entertainment.

No one is immune

We just have to put ALL of us well in our heads, that no one is immune. There are no safe neighborhoods, perfect schools, or 'untouchable' families.

Even behind the high walls of the luxurious neighborhoods on the outskirts of Tirana, where the illusion of tranquility is sold at staggering prices, children grow up with the same anxieties, gaps and exposure to violence, as everywhere else.

It's just that it's quieter there, more branded, more sophisticated in form, but just as dangerous at its core. Violence does not stop with security cameras, but with a society that does not treat life as a race, but as a shared responsibility.

Today the murder of a child in a village of Maliq is distant news, tomorrow it may be the child of each of us who never returns from school. Or worse yet – coming back with stained hands for life.

It's a pain that nothing prepares you for. It is time to feel this pain, before it becomes ours.


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