"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many children who grow up in Turkmenistan’s state-run orphanages end up living in retirement homes when they turn 18, says a woman who was raised in a Turkmen orphanage. By law, the Turkmen ...

[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 ...

Over 16 years, a Christian nonprofit moved dozens of Cambodian orphans out of institutions and into local families. In 2008, Keo Ravy and Amy Sullivan of Children in Families (CIF) drove to an ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Azure Orphanage One day, while secretly searching for the Empire's heritage, orphan Niina encounters a "demon," believed to be a survivor of the war ...

Twelve years after working in a Romanian orphanage, Natalie Pinkham tracks down a girl she formed a special bond with to see where life has taken her.

And among those left most completely isolated were the country's thousands of orphans and children whose parents have been deprived of custody. "Previously, there were organizations that offered ...