As a result of Ceausescu's policies ...

Women couldn't care for the children they gave birth to.

Many women died in childbirth as a result of malnutrition and lack of medical care.

He created the Securitatea, a brutal secret police that became a feared tool of repression and enforcement of his wishes.

Mothers abandoned babies, giving them up to the now notorious government orphanages

 

 

 

 

 

Today there are thousands of abandoned and orphaned children trying desperately to survive on the streets.

  Many of these street children die from starvation, assault, disease and
  exposure to the harsh Romanian winters.