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Post by Dabbit on Sept 6, 2006 2:22:37 GMT -5
On our ITV news here in the UK they have been running a short series of films on Romania who is expected to join the EU soon. In order to get into the EU they have to amend some of their horrid practices. Some of these practices are horrendous and totally unforgivable.
Example 1:
Children in orphanages are left unattended with no entertainment no play -no nothing. Hence their little minds go insane with boredom and frustration they end up with mental health issues, often banging their heads. One clip showed that nurses in the children home were so scarce that anyone could have walked in and well done anything.
Example 2:
Babies being sold, the reporter and his cameraman posed as two married men wishing to buy babies and were offered some from mothers for as little as $10,000. One mother boasted that the money from selling her first child had bought her house. There is no vetting of any sort, and indeed as the reporter crossed country boundaries there was no passport checks of any kind. Paedophile heaven I should imagine!
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Post by Mark on Sept 6, 2006 7:13:32 GMT -5
Well, looking on the slightly brighter side, perhaps this is one instance where the EU actually does a good thing if it can force the Romanians to change their system of regulating orphanages - if the Romanians want badly enough to enter the EU.
These practices are truly horrid indeed - you are so right, moreover the are abominable. How can a mother 'sell' her child?
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Post by Dabbit on Sept 6, 2006 14:22:33 GMT -5
Mark I was quite upset when I saw the report on TV, but the Romanian government has took footage of the film and is investigating it. I couldn't believe that in todays day and age we treat children or anyone like that....
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Post by Mark on Sept 6, 2006 19:27:11 GMT -5
Well, unfortunately that sort of thing is rife in many of the former Soviet-subjugated states as well as in some African countries.
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Post by louise90 on Sept 7, 2006 10:06:58 GMT -5
I saw this too, Dave. If I hadn't of seen it with my own eyes on TV, I'd have never of believed that children are STILL living this appauling life in the 21st Century. With Countries like the UK and USA the way they are with child welfare, I can't see how another Country can lag so behind in looking after their little babies.
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Post by Dabbit on Sept 7, 2006 13:32:48 GMT -5
I wonder that too Louise, I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it either. But as Mark says maybe by joining the EU they will be forced to change things - alebit slowly. Mind you that said I fail to nderstand how any mother can sell her baby to people who have no checks of any kind (Em let's breifly think paedophiles here).
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Post by Mark on Sept 7, 2006 14:57:08 GMT -5
I just fail to understand how a parent can sell a child, particularly its mother.  |
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Post by Maria on Sept 8, 2006 6:14:11 GMT -5
Not all women who give birth have motherly feelings or are natural care givers as many people think. Yes it is all too shocking. I have a friend (me with my Friends again) that has gone to Romania with a church group to help out at the orphanages. He says it is devastating.
Now it is Iraq's turn. Normally, there are not orphanages there because family members and tribal members always taken in the children. However, with the war, many children are now not only parent-less but without homes and the country is now setting up orphanages. My understanding there is a great stigma for children to be in these places.
sometimes the world is a heartless place.
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Post by Dabbit on Sept 8, 2006 11:00:36 GMT -5
Maria its something we do tend to overlook assuming that all women have maternal instincts, but I guess you are right. As for your friend being devastated I can only imagine as I was shocked & upset by what I saw on the TV - let alone see it in real life.
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