Question

From the 1960s through the 1980s, thousands of Romanian children were placed in understaffed and under-resourced orphanages as a result of Nicolae Ceausescu's drive to increase the country's population irrespective of families' abilities to care for their new children . Which kind of developmental delays did the children placed in these orphanages exhibit as a result of the deprivation and neglect they experienced ?

Answer 1

Answer:

The developmental delays exhibited by the children were:

• physical.
• motor.
• social.
• cognitive.

Explanation:

Nicolae Ceausescu was a Romanian Communist politician and leader. In 1960s, he issued a Decree No. 770 after alarming decline in birth rate. By issuing this decree in 1966, he prohibited abortion. He stated that 'the fetus is the property of the entire society.'

He placed under-staffed and under-resourced children in orphanages under this decree. The children that he placed in these orphanages exhibited the developmental delays such as physical, motor, social, and cognitive.

These children who were placed in orpahanges were either abandoned by their parents who were not able to take care of them or were simply abandoned because they do not want their burdens.