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The nature of orphanages means that they often fail to provide the individual sustained attention and stimulation a child would get from growing up within a family. In many cases the children living in them are at risk of harm. [37] There are also many reports of orphanages being abusive [33] [38] or having very high death rates. [39]
The true number of children who lived in orphanages during the communist era is not known, due to the fact that it is not possible to obtain reliable data on practices and policies that took place under the regime. According to some sources, in 1989 there were approximately 100,000 children living in orphanages. [5]
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Funded by millions of dollars in donations for their work in Haiti, Western church organizations operate scores of facilities in a shadowy but sprawling industry that often leaves children ...
Plaque where once stood the ruota ("the wheel"), the place to abandon children at the side of the Chiesa della Pietà, the church of an orphanage in Venice.The plaque cites on a Papal bull by Paul III dated 12 November 1548, threatens "excommunication and maledictions" for all those who – having the means to rear a child – choose to abandon him/her instead.
In 1993, she moved to Romania to set up the first mother and baby unit in Bucharest, and since then she has pioneered a model of deinstitutionalisation which is now followed in many countries across Central and Eastern Europe. [2] Between 1993 and 2015, the number of children in Romanian orphanages has been reduced from 200,000 to 20,000. [3]
Since other countries, like the Netherlands and Denmark, are closing their doors to inter-country adoption, more children who cannot be placed domestically will continue to languish in uncertainty.
It's estimated there are more than 100,000 children in orphanages in Ukraine. CBS2's Alice Gainer spoke with one American man who runs two there. He's afraid the government will cut off funding ...