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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.
In 1990, members in California sent quilts to needy orphanages in Romania. Assistance to orphanages continued in the 2000s, and there was an increase in specialized development projects. [12] In 2000, members in Washington state sent bedding materials to an orphanage in Iasi, Romania. In 2003, the church assisted the disabled by coordinating ...
Cighid was a children's home in Romania where many orphans and disabled youths were held in inhumane conditions. The extent of the abuse was exposed in March 1990, shortly after the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu 's regime.
Levitt and Dubner note that Romania was the only east-European communist country with strict anti-abortion and anti-contraception laws at the time, and the only country whose ruler was violently overthrown and killed at the end of the Cold War. Most other such countries experienced a tumultuous, but peaceful, transition.
As such, the number of street children declined markedly. 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]
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Nazi Germany in 1944 (light brown) and its allies (dark brown) After the coup of September 1940, the new regime joined the Axis powers and, in June 1941 joined Germany's Operation Barbarossa to conquer the Soviet Union. Romania in World War II supplied petroleum, equipment, and more troops to the invasion than any other Axis power.
During the first 3 post-war decades, Romania industrialized faster than Spain, Greece, and Portugal. The infant mortality rate plummeted from 139 per 1,000 during the interwar period to 35 in the 1970s. During the interwar period, half the population was illiterate, but under the communist government illiteracy was eradicated.