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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]
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]
Most children who live in orphanages are not orphans; four out of five children in orphanages have at least one living parent and most having some extended family. [28] Developing countries and their governments rely on kinship care to aid in the orphan crisis because it is cheaper to financially help extended families in taking in an orphaned ...
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 ...
STORY: Hit hard by the global health crisis and tax cuts by the Rajapaksa government, Sri Lanka is in the midst of its worst economic crisis since it won independence from Britain in 1948 ...
The 2006 General Comment No.9 reports concern with the lack of adequate treatment provided, as well as increased vulnerability to institutional abuse and neglect. [5] In Russia, 400,000 to 600,000 children are under institutional care, and these children are subject to the concerns stated in the committee's report. [6]
However, in the early 2000s, [3] as many of the Eastern European countries joined the European Union, they were required to deal with the situation of street children and orphans; and the situation has improved in many of these countries. Unemployment and the extremes of income inequality are some of the causes behind the phenomenon of street ...