What Happens To the Children?
28 January 2009
January 28, 2009. What Happens To the Children? International Adoption ended in Romania five years ago. Periodically we look at what has happened to the lives of children whose birth parents cannot take care of them. This week we learned one answer. According to the Romanian newspaper, Gandul, there has been an overwhelming number of abandonments in Bacau county. In the previous three weeks, more than 140 children have been abandoned but the Child Protective Services of the county could only take 44 of them. (Indeed it only had money and space for 20). According to Sorin Brasoveanu, director of CPS Bacau County, "We are being confronted with an avalanche of abandonments. It's regrettable that it's happening. I think the problem exists because local communities have not gotten sufficiently involve. We have no more room in placement centers and we have room for maybe two children under age two. In all the placement centers, we have only 30% of the personnel help that we need. At this moment, it is impossible to even take one child in an emergency placement." This situation should never have existed in the first place.