Welcome to Orsm. net. The biggest and best EN site on the web Pay attention to whats going on in our education system fake news bill will be attempting to teach kids whats real news and whats not. What they fail to mention. The Orphanage Problem Phenomena Only Human. Last November I went to Bucharest to shadow an American neuroscientist, Charles Nelson, whose team has studied the same group of 1. Romanian orphans for the past 1. My loooong story about this project came out this week in Aeon Magazine. Heres a snippet In 1. Watch Cube 2: Hypercube Tube Free. B-2Q9XiUsAAWrWJ.png' alt='Watch Fireman Save My Child Online Forbes' title='Watch Fireman Save My Child Online Forbes' />AOL Radio is powered by humans Great radio is all about unexpected connectionsthe kind that an algorithm cant predict. Pick any station in any of the 30 genres. Breitbart TV is the home of the hottest video on politics, world events, culture, and media. Nelson and several other American scientists launched the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a now famous study of Romanian children who were mostly social orphans, meaning that their biological parents had given them over to the states care. At the time, despite an international outcry over Romanias orphan problem, many Romanian officials staunchly believed that the behavioural problems of institutionalised children were innate the reason their parents had left them there, rather than the result of institutional life. And because of these inherent deficiencies, the children would fare better in orphanages than families. The scientists pitched their study as a way to find out for sure. They enrolled 1. 36 institutionalised children, placed half of them in foster care, and tracked the physical, psychological, and neurological development of both groups for many years. They found, predictably, that kids are much better off in foster care than in orphanages. Perhaps the strangest part of this project was that the fundamental scientific question it posed Are orphanages bad for kidsDefinitively. Studies going back many decades had shown that orphanages are awful. Research with human subjects is normally considered unethical if it doesnt tackle novel questions. In this case, though, Nelsons project was ethically justified because Romanian officials had not paid any attention to those previous studies. Quite the opposite They had a strong cultural belief that state run orphanages would protect orphans far better than unstable and untrustworthy foster parents. So the study went ahead, and exactly how it did so is the crux of my story. During my reporting, I had a hard time wrapping my head around the Romanian cultural preference for institutions. I chalked it up to the lasting shadow of Nicolae Ceauescu, the Romanian dictator who, for decades before his assassination in 1. But this week I learned from fellow science writer Maia Szalavitz that the pro orphanage idea still persists to a surprising degree. In 2. 01. 0, Szalavitz wrote a Forbes post outlining all the ways in which orphanages are damaging. In one part of the post,  she describes a fascinating early study Research on the dangers of institutional care for young children dates back to the 1. For as long as they have existed, orphanages have always had alarmingly high death rates. From the early 2. But Austrian psychoanalyst and physician Rene Spitz proposed an alternate theory. He thought that infants in institutions suffered from lack of lovethat they were missing important parental relationships, which in turn was hurting or even killing them. The Star Wars Holiday Special Full Movie Part 1 there. Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for. Do you want the Car Show Calendar delivered to your email box If you said YES we can send you a monthly email for the upcoming month, just sign up below. Orphanage problem is an international problem seeking social groups attention for a remedial measure to make every child born to have a decent living. After a long and courageous battle. In light of an old saying that no parent should see their children pass on before them, I relay my sympathies to her parents Donna. DgrkhzkRarE/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch Fireman Save My Child Online Forbes' title='Watch Fireman Save My Child Online Forbes' />To test his theory, he compared a group of infants raised in isolated hospital cribs with those raised in a prison by their own incarcerated mothers. If the germs from being locked up with lots of people were the problem, both groups of infants should have done equally poorly. In fact, the hospitalized kids should have done better, given the attempts made at imposing sterile conditions. If love mattered, however, the prisoners kids should prevail. Love won 3. 7 of the infants kept in the bleak hospital ward died, but there were no deaths at all amongst the infants raised in the prison. The incarcerated babies grew more quickly, were larger and did better in every way Spitz could measure. The orphans who managed to survive the hospital, in contrast, were more likely to contract all types of illnesses. They were scrawny and showed obvious psychological, cognitive and behavioral problems. Now heres the surprising part. Szalavitz told me that she got tons of comments on that post from people who still believe that institutions are OK for infants. Watch Hodejegerne Online Hodejegerne Full Movie Online more. There were so many apologists, in fact, that she wrote a follow up post a few days later calling them out. In that, she pointed to a story in the New York Times with a dreadful headline Study Suggests Orphanages Are Not So Bad. The study in question, published in 2. Africa and Asia who lived in orphanages versus family homes. But the study had one big caveat that was ignored in the Times article The kids were all between the ages of 6 and 1. For children younger than that, orphanages are so bad. Why is this idea so difficult to accept Szalavitz says its not about cost, as foster care is far less expensive than keeping an orphanage open. She suspects it does come down to money, though, in that government and non profit funding is more easily granted to institutions than individuals. That agrees with what I heard in Romania. Elizabeth Furtado, one of the researchers working on the Romanian orphans project, put it like this The last two years on the project have been somewhat defeating, Furtado says, because the adolescents behaviors are becoming more difficult to manage, and the foster care parents are getting less and less support financial, educational, emotional from the government. On the one hand, I know that we are doing a lot of good for a lot of these kids, she says. But it makes me sad that legislation isnt keeping up with enough of what were finding.