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According to Jon Hamilton, "A lot of what scientists know about parental bonding and the brain comes from studies of children who spent time in Romanian orphanages during the 1980s and 1990s." [16] The conditions of the orphanages showed that not only is nutrition vital to a child's development, but also basic human contact. [17]
The pictures of sick and malnourished children were published in many newspapers and were shown on many TV stations around the world. Observers described the sight of Cighid with terms like "Child Gulags" or "the Romanian Euthanasia Program". One example was the so-called "isolator": a shed with its windows nailed shut, where 17 toddlers were kept.
When HHC started working in Romania there were 100,000 children living in Romanian orphanages, and by 2010 there were less than 7,500. [17] It is the largest programme for Hope and Homes for Children, and they have led the closure of institutions and established replacement services in several counties.
Around 2004, about 500 children lived permanently in the streets of Bucharest, while other children (less than 1,500) worked in the streets during the day, but returned home to their families in the evenings - making a total of 2,000 street children in Romania's capital. [7] Child begging is a problem that Romania has taken many steps to ...
In 2014, Fox co-authored with Charles Nelson and Charles H. Zeanah Romania's abandoned children: deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery, [12] a book reporting findings related to The Bucharest Early Intervention Project. The Bucharest Early Intervention Project aimed to understand effects of social deprivation on infants.
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]
The BEIP selected orphanages in Bucharest, Romania that raised abandoned children in socially and emotionally deprived environments in order to study the changes in development of infants and children after they had been placed with specially trained foster families in the local community. [14]
Orphanages in Romania (2 P) Y. Youth organizations based in Romania (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Child-related organizations in Romania"