Romania's Infants

News from Romania concerning the plight of infants. It seems like things are going back to the old Communist days when life was not valued. If as people we do not care about infants and children, what does that say about us??????? It is so frustrating to see these poor children being persecuted. If people in power would just do the right thing, these children could have loving homes. From my source in Romania.

Romanian news (13 June 2005) once again highlighted (albeit without intending to) the plight of abandoned infants in Romania. Though it wasn't directly stated, the cause of all this mess is in fact the new law which Emma Nicholson says is "up" to EU standards (DOWN to Hellish standards is more like it, Biblically speaking).

1. About 150 infants were abandoned in Timis County hospitals in the first five months of 2005 (That works out to about one a day doesn't it, just in one county??!!) The hospitals are really stuck.

2. A spokesperson for one hospital said, "The new law makes things very difficult for us because abandonments can only be declared/approved by a judge, and that takes forever. So we have to keep them here. Of course after the judges decision, they go to a 'placement center' before anything is done with them." (There is some question about this as it may not be in strict conformity to the law -- but what else is new in Romania.) Along with this is the fact that the babies have no identity papers because either the mothers gave false info or the mothers didn't have any identity papers.

3. The national news said that Romania is in first place in infant mortality in Europe. There are four reasons: poor hospital conditions, mediocre preparation of hospital personnel that deal with infants, poor preparation of the mothers, poor conditions at home. [of course per the new adoption law in Romania it's always better for the child to be in the birth-family -- NOT!]

Somebody really ought to be called on the carpet to account for these abuses caused in great part by the new law (Emma?, PSD & Iliescu/Nastase?, the whole EU?, Basescu et al for not processing the registered cases and for not changing the law?, all of the above?!!)! Any takers?