Posted on 12/29/2007 2:38:13 PM PST by joan
Glorious EU.
Ceausescu is just the gift that keeps on giving isn’t he?
Blaming someone who has been dead for almost 2 decades is not going to help - it becomes and excuse not to take care of problems but simply point the finger at the past. What have the people done to remedy problems for almost an entire generation since his death?
“Many villages in northern and eastern Romania appear to be inhabited only by children and their grandparents.”
The same thing has been going on for years in Mexico. Things in Romania must really be bad.
I was speaking to his encouragement for mothers to have kids, kids, and more kids to swell the population. So thousands of thousands of kids grew up without love, without stability, and now these same people are having children and see no need to provide something they never had.
Wish they would made adoptions easier for those kids without parents. Romania is a h3II-hole.
“Wish they would made adoptions easier for those kids without parents. Romania is a h3II-hole.”
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I wouldn’t bet on adoption as even a partial solution. A whole generation of Ceaucescu’s psycho orphans adopted in the U.S. gave Romanian kids a horrendous reputation.
Many of the orphans were probably Roma/Gyspies - don’t you think?
From what I understand about Romania, abandoning children is a cultural thing over there. It’s no big deal to leave them at an orphanage.
Sick to the max.
“Many of the orphans were probably Roma/Gyspies - don’t you think?”
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Ethnic slurs aside, I don’t think that’s such a big distinction in Romania. Roma seem to be a sizable chunk of the population and don’t seem to live all that differently from anybody else. The dirt-poor “Kazakh” village that “Borat” filmed and made fun of was actually an ethnic Roma village in Romania. I don’t think they’re all like “The Riches”.
I do think the disposable attitude towards kids can be fairly blamed on Nicolae and Elena’s ruthless breeding program that outlawed abortion and contraception and filled the hideous orphanages, but they cannot be blamed for the fact that eighteen years after they were sent to their reward, Romania still seems to lack the legal and political underpinnings for a successful, prosperous economy.
Bet a lot of villages in Mexico are full of nothing but Grandparents and kids too...
I believe they do not allow foreign adoption of their children, which is sad.
We adopted our daughter in Romania in May, 1991. She was three months old when we got her out. I shudder to think what would have happened to her if she was still there.
What are you talking about? Thats pure crap. We have a daughter adopted there who is the average American teenager now, none of the problems you seem to think infect the kids brought back here.
Our daughter had blond hair until she got older, brown now. Ethnic Hungarian or German I believe, adopted from Northwest Romania not too far from the Hungarian border. We did see a lot of Roma’s trying to get their kids adopted (sold) while we were there.
Margaret Sanger, is that you?
You need to acquaint yourself with that particular story before you go assuming things.
I think he’s referring to the fact that many of the Romanian Orphans were so poorly treated (physically and psychologically) in their home country they were at risk for serious psychological problems. But from what I’ve read, it took a lot of work, but the kids are going to end up OK.
Interesting thing, Causescu is Romania leading historical figure, over 40% of Romanians foted him....
Explanation was simple. “Under Causescu our stores were empty. Under Democracy, they are full of goods, but we have no work and no money...”
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