My uncle is involved in a few orphanages in Romania through his church. The picures he brings home from there make you want to cry.
As a society, they treat their children terribly there. If a baby is dropped accidentally, they assume that it's damaged or something. Child abandonment is common, and prostitution is often the destiny of girls.
To my knowledge, the only society that rivals Romania like this is India, where the concept of Karma (the preordained cycle of a person's fate based on repayment of past sins of previous lives) devalues humanity. Many babies are abandoned in the jungles and woods to the animals if there's any kind of birth defect.
You don't see many kids born here today with birth defects either because their parents kill them before they're born.
"Many babies are abandoned in the jungles and woods to the animals if there's any kind of birth defect."
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Even though I don't agree with that practice regarding human beings, they're beyond impoverished, grossly lacking education thus behave exactly like the wild animals in a jungle do. You should see what wild horses do to a new born baby colt who is born disabled. If the colt can never stand up another horse, not the mother takes the colt by the neck, shaking it like a rag doll killing it rather than let it starve to death on the ground. Nature, survival of the fittest, it's a tough gig.
"To my knowledge, the only society that rivals Romania like this is India, where the concept of Karma (the preordained cycle of a person's fate based on repayment of past sins of previous lives) devalues humanity. Many babies are abandoned in the jungles and woods to the animals if there's any kind of birth defect. "
Have you ever been to India?