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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Tue Mar 6, 2012, 01:00 PM Mar 2012

The GOP's War On Women was fought once before… Ceausescu

Romanian orphans
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans

The standard of living for Romanian orphans is still grave despite vast improvements since their conditions were leaked to the West after the fall of the Communist government in 1989. A news report on the American newsmagazine 20/20, which first aired on October 5, 1990, was the first to show the conditions in full detail on television.

Under Nicolae Ceauşescu, both abortion and contraception were forbidden, leading to a rise in birth rates. This resulted in many children being abandoned and these were joined in the orphanages by disabled and mentally ill people. Together these vulnerable groups were subjected to institutionalised neglect and abuse, including physical and sexual abuse and use of drugs to control behaviour.

Don't these fools ever learn?

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The GOP's War On Women was fought once before… Ceausescu (Original Post) MrScorpio Mar 2012 OP

no, sadly, they do not--and their hatred for women continues unabated, actually growing in intensity niyad Mar 2012 #1

Voices from Romania's institutions MrScorpio Mar 2012 #2

They themselves have admitted they want cheap labor ck4829 Mar 2012 #3

USA Orphanages HockeyMom Mar 2012 #4

am sure they can ride the rails like they did during the depression. pansypoo53219 Mar 2012 #5

am sure they can ride the rails like they did during the depression. pansypoo53219 Mar 2012 #6

niyad

(113,496 posts)

1. no, sadly, they do not--and their hatred for women continues unabated, actually growing in intensity

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 01:02 PM

Mar 2012

MrScorpio

(73,631 posts)

2. Voices from Romania's institutions

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 01:07 PM

Mar 2012

Cornel, 27, Bucharest

Cornel now sells paintings for a living, and helps others like himself
I was sent to an orphanage when I was five. My mother had died and my father was an alcoholic.

There was a strong communist philosophy there. Every morning we had to sing national songs with a picture of Ceausescu at the front of the room. If you didn't stand up straight, you were beaten.

As a child I grew up with a lot of emotional problems. I had a lot of anger inside me. I used to think: 'Why me? What had I done?' I tried to find someone to blame.

I used to get beaten a lot as a child. When I was about 10 or 11 I started wetting the bed, and they used to hit me a lot for that.

Finally I couldn't contain it, and I exploded. I started stealing things and when I was 15 I tried to kill someone. He was in a coma for a week, and I was very lucky he didn't press charges.

After that I was labelled a criminal. Everyone said I was bad, and I believed them. I thought I was just garbage.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4630857.stm

ck4829

(35,079 posts)

3. They themselves have admitted they want cheap labor

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 01:20 PM

Mar 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x594052

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)

4. USA Orphanages

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 01:25 PM

Mar 2012

It didn't just happen in other countries, and not just when parents died. My husband' grandfather and his brother were put in an orphanage when their parents could not afford to feed them. No social services back in those days. They ended up in different places and spent years trying to find each other.

pansypoo53219

(20,986 posts)

5. am sure they can ride the rails like they did during the depression.

Reply to HockeyMom (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 02:29 PM

Mar 2012

or maybe sneak into canada. because every sperm is sacred.

pansypoo53219

(20,986 posts)

6. am sure they can ride the rails like they did during the depression.

Reply to HockeyMom (Reply #4)

Tue Mar 6, 2012, 02:30 PM

Mar 2012

or maybe sneak into canada. because every sperm is sacred.

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