After the fall of communism in Romania, the world was shocked to discover a vast system of orphanages where unwanted children languished in cribs with little attention from caregivers. Sixteen years ...

Policymakers worldwide have been calling for countries to get rid of institutions for orphans and abandoned children. A study out of Duke... "Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver Twist famously ...

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Before the Romanian Revolution of 1989, thousands of children faced squalor, abuse, and total neglect in orphanages under the communist rule of Nicolae Ceau?escu. When the conditions these children ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Behavioral tics such as head banging, hand flapping, and body rocking are more common in toddlers living in orphanages, but often disappear after children are placed in ...

WASHINGTON -- Toddlers rescued from orphanages and placed in good foster homes score dramatically higher on IQ tests years later than children who were left behind, a study concludes. The ...

"Please, sir, I want some more," Oliver Twist famously asked in the food line at an orphanage. Instead he got a blow to the head with a ladle. In the real world, conditions at orphanages can be even ...