Author · Activist · Founder of the CPV Association
Sylvie
Castro
Child Protection & Family Rights

An educator, activist, and socially conscious author, Sylvie Castro devotes her energy to exposing the abuses of the child protection system, child sexual abuse, and wrongful placements. As founder of the Communiquer Pour Vivre association, she gives a voice to broken families and forgotten children.

Child Protection Child Sexual Abuse Justice & Institutions Alternative Education Integrative Health
Background & Commitments
Education
Faced with her children’s academic struggles, Sylvie Castro became passionate about the work of Maria Montessori and Antoine de la Garanderie. As a self-taught educator, she developed numerous teaching tools adopted by several schools in the Centre region and later in Paris, and founded a small school for children facing significant challenges. She then worked for three years at the alternative school founded by her daughter in Eure-et-Loir.
Integrative Health
Personal health challenges led her to discover chiropractic and osteopathy. For three years, she assisted a chiropractor and deepened her knowledge: working on the unconscious mind with a doctor of psychology, training in the “Cuirasses Liberation” method (two years), the Serge Wifart method (breathing, voice, stretching), and the Nadeau Technique.
Child Sexual Abuse

During active listening sessions with people in distress, she discovered the extent of the sexual abuse they had suffered since childhood. She collected testimonies—including the deeply moving account of a grandfather who had been a victim of an abuse ring since the age of 7—and decided to write to break the silence and help the victims.
Abusive Foster Placements
Through her research, she uncovered serious flaws in the child protection system: abused children placed in foster care, protective parents persecuted and forcibly separated from their children, and 18-year-olds abandoned without support. Shocked by these systemic injustices, she became publicly involved and founded an organization.
Published Works
Educational Story · Éditions Egalité
“School: Hell or Heaven”

Drawing on her hands-on experience supporting children struggling in school, this book compiles, in the form of short stories, the lessons Sylvie Castro has learned from her work, inspired by Montessori and Antoine de la Garanderie. A vivid account of what school can be when it puts the child first.

Alternative Education · Montessori · Academic Difficulties · Childhood
Testimonials · Éditions Égalité
“Hope, on the Brink of the Irreparable”

A book born from the patient collection of testimonies from victims of childhood sexual abuse. Families, neighbors, support networks: Sylvie Castro gives a voice to those whom shame has silenced. P

 Painful yet liberating, this book breaks the silence on one of the heaviest taboos in our society.

Child Sexual Abuse Testimonies Sexual Abuse Hope
Activist Essay · Éditions Egalité
“Child Roundups in 2015”

A hard-hitting book on the abuses of the Child Welfare System: children torn from protective parents, families torn apart by unjust court decisions, 18-year-old young adults abandoned overnight. A well-documented cry of alarm about what Sylvie Castro calls organized institutional violence.

Abusive Placements, Child Welfare Services, Justice, Family Rights, Institutions
Public Appearances & Media
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TV28 Interview — Abusive Placements · November 23, 2016
Search for “tv28sylvie castro” on YouTube →
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France-Soir Op-Ed — Child Protection and Justice · March 18, 2021
Read the op-ed in France-Soir →
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Interview “Abusive Placements — Communication: The Heart of the Fight” · April 1, 2023
Published by Papas et Mamans Solidaires on YouTube.
Channel @defensefamille →
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First conference in France on abusive foster placements · Manou (28), June 26, 2022
Search for “conference on June 26, 2022” on YouTube →
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Conference on abusive foster placements in Senonches · October 29 and 30, 2022
Featuring Olivier Marleix, Ernest Chesnières, and the Thermoutis association.
Search for “conference October 29 and 30, 2022” on YouTube →
Organization & Topics
Communiquer Pour Vivre

An organization founded by Sylvie Castro, dedicated to supporting families who are victims of wrongful child placements and to raising public awareness about the shortcomings of the child welfare system. Website: sylviecastro.wixsite.com/28250
Key Issues
Child protection · Child sexual abuse · Justice and institutions · Freedoms and rights · Education and youth · Agriculture · Religion and spirituality.
Find Sylvie Castro
Association website
sylviecastro.wixsite.com/28250
Facebook
facebook.com/sylvie.castro.121
YouTube
@defensefamille
@sylviecastro777
TikTok
@sylvie1955
Instagram
@sylviecastro77
“Giving a voice to those whom the system has silenced.”