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  2. 1980s-1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Improving the situation of orphans had been made a condition of Romanian entry into the European Union, but an investigation by BBC journalist Chris Rogers in 2009 revealed that conditions in some institutions are still very poor and large numbers of institutionalized and traumatized people are still held in inadequate conditions, with many ...

  3. Cighid - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Street children in Eastern Europe - Wikipedia

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    In the 21st century, Romania has taken drastic steps to stop the phenomenons of mistreatment and exploitation of children and child abandonment, and to improve the situation of orphans, especially as it prepared itself to become a member of the European Union. As such, the number of street children declined markedly.

  5. Charles A. Nelson III - Wikipedia

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    Dr. Charles A Nelson. Charles A. Nelson III is an American neuroscientist and psychologist. [1] His international projects include a long-standing project (with Drs. Nathan A. Fox and Charles Zeanah) on institutionalized children in Romania, [2] children growing up in a slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, [3] infants in Puerto Rico exposed to the Zika virus, [4] and children growing up in challenging ...

  6. History of attachment theory - Wikipedia

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    The English and Romanian Adoptees Study Team, led by Michael Rutter, has followed some of the children into their teens, attempting to unravel the effects of poor attachment, adoption and new relationships, and the physical and medical problems associated with their early lives. Studies on the Romanian adoptees, whose initial conditions were ...

  7. Street children - Wikipedia

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    The phenomenon of street children in Romania must be understood within the local historical context. In 1966, in communist Romania, ruler Nicolae Ceauşescu outlawed contraception and abortion, enacting an aggressive natalist policy, in an effort to increase the population. As families were not able to cope, thousands of unwanted children were ...

  8. Couple claims 6-year-old girl they adopted from Ukraine is ...

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    The case has drawn widespread comparisons to the 2009 film "Orphan," in which a couple adopts a 9-year-old Russian girl and later discovers she is, in fact, a 33-year-old woman who has killed at ...

  9. Georgette Mulheir - Wikipedia

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    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]