"That's a lot of babies that were going straight from the hospital into an orphanage, and that was even five years after the revolution," she said. Romanian orphans 'still suffering in adulthood ...

The researchers at King's College London were following adopted children who spent time in "hellhole" Romanian orphanages. They grew up with brains 8.6% smaller than other adoptees. The ...

During the 1960s, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu triggered one of the largest orphan crises in Europe after enacting an extremely aggressive natality policy in Romania that banned all ...

This is Phase 5 of a longitudinal project begun in 1991 in which we have followed the development of early deprived children adopted by Canadian families from Romanian orphanages. This project aims to ...

Report shows footage of Romanian children in beds in an orphanage. Interview with Eric Carson, appeal organiser, on the need to help the children who live in spartan conditions. Children in an ...

A little girl stands alone in a Romanian orphanage, sucking on a rattle and staring at the camera. “She'd wet her pants and was crying and crying,” Nelson recalls. “No one was paying attention to her.

It was researched and written by Kathleen Hunt, a consultant to Human Rights Watch, who as a journalist investigated the orphanages in post-Ceausescu Romania for the New York Times Sunday Magazine ...

[1] While children were being infected with HIV in hospitals and orphanages as early as 1985, Communist leaders who refused to recognize the possibility of such illnesses in Romania barred doctors ...

Several hundred American families have been matched with children in China. Many families were scheduled to bring their ...

She later worked as a freelance journalist in Germany, covering stories in post-Communist Europe from economic and political reunification to abuse in Romanian orphanages. She worked for the ...

Bob was a member of Christ’s Community Covenant Church in Arvada and actively involved with Heart 2 Heart Ministries performing mission work in Romania orphanages. Bob was preceded in death by ...