Reporter Tom Jarriel and ABC's 20/20 return to Romania tonight to update a 1990 story on the problems of orphans. What they find will make you heartsick -- a baby black market, government failure and ...

Spray-painted graffiti covers the gray, communist-era concrete building housing a cramped two-bedroom apartment that's home to seven boys and their "dad." They are among more than 60 boys who have ...

After the fall of communism in Romania, the world was shocked to discover a vast system of orphanages where unwanted children languished in cribs with little attention from caregivers. Sixteen years ...

LONDON (AP) — Romanian children adopted from overcrowded orphanages in the 1990s were more likely to suffer psychological problems as adults compared to other children taken in by British families, ...

It's been nearly a quarter-century since the world was shocked by the horrible scenes from Romanian orphanages. The worst abuses have been halted... First of two stories The 1989 overthrow and ...

According to some estimates, more than 100 million children around the world experience separations from their caregiver ...

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. -- It took a lot of twists and turns of fate for Rob Brekke to end up in Detroit Lakes: He was adopted from an orphanage in Romania when he was 2 years old. The Serban home in ...

Source: Photo Credit, Freedom House, Flickr, public domain. As of January 2019, the federal government has reported that nearly 3,000 children were forcibly separated from their parents migrating ...

In September 2025, a rumor circulated on social media that Erika Kirk, the CEO of the nonprofit Turning Point USA, was involved in child trafficking through a charitable project in Romania. The rumor ...