The country that I picked to learn more about the issue of childhood poverty is Romania.
Poverty among children in this country has dropped over 30% since 2003, but children are still at a high risk. I learned that 75% of poor children still live in the rural areas of the country.
A poor family in Romania live in the rural areas and are likely to have 4 or more children. A wealthy family live in the urban areas and have 0 or 1 child and are highly educated.
I also learned that Romania has a great problem with children being born into poverty and being left behind by their families, because of this Romania has a great problem with their orphanages. 150,000 children now live in orphanages.
Romania joined the European Union in 2007 and has improve the country in many ways. Joining the EU has helped the counties situation with human trafficking and with child abuse and has improve child care for children.
Resources:
UNICEF, Country Profil, 2010.
http://www.unicef.org/romania/overview.html
Encyclopedia of the Nations, Romania Poverty and wealth, Information about Poverty and wealth in Romania, 2014.
http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/
Emily, The number of children that are in orphanage is staggering. I wonder how many children get adopted internationally. It also seems by the numbers that you posted, possibly the educated people that have zero to one child are also educated on birth control too. I found the information to be very interesting an old family friend of mine was from Romania and she always spoke so fondly of her home country.-Jolene Hernandez-Romero
ReplyDeleteEmily,
ReplyDeleteIt is very sad how children live in poverty all over the world. Romania has a very high rate of poverty; this is very similar to Haiti. So many children do not have parents willing to care for them, the parents who want to help, often feel helpless due to a lack of education and income. While researching, I found that many of the parents in Haiti allow their children to be adopted by the United States; this helps families when they do not have the resources to care for their children. The number of children in orphanages in Romania is astonishing; I never knew so many children were living in orphanages. You would think if a parent could not care for their children, they would stop having them. Thanks for an informative post.
Lah-Lah
Hello Emily!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your insights on Romania.It was very interesting to read through your comments. I was saddened by the amount of children that are living in Romania. Those poor children. Did you happen to get any information about the conditions of the orphanages. I happen to have had a student in my class last year that was from an orphanage in Kenya and I was quite surprised with how well she was treated.