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  2. Category:Orphanages in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Orphanages in Europe" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Coen Cuserhof; D.

  3. Deinstitutionalisation (orphanages and children's institutions)

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    More than 4 out of 5 children living in institutions are not orphans. [35] This amount rises to 98% in Eastern Europe. [36] The nature of orphanages means that they often fail to provide the individual sustained attention and stimulation a child would get from growing up within a family. In many cases the children living in them are at risk of ...

  4. Euro-orphan - Wikipedia

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    The expression itself is a misnomer since it is meant to describe temporary child abandonment rather than the death of both parents. A similar name is White Orphans. [2] Such abandoned children may require therapeutic or psychiatric care to cope. [3] The EU supports family reunification. [4]

  5. 1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Many starved to death. Physical injuries that had to do with development included fractures that had not healed right, resulting in deformed limbs. [6] Some children in the orphanages were infected with HIV/AIDS due to the practice of using unsterilised instruments. [7] Orphanages failed to meet even the most basic needs of the children. [7]

  6. List of orphan source incidents - Wikipedia

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    This resulted in three deaths and affected 100+ people. A woman was exposed to radiation while nursing her sick husband. 41 days after the accident, her dose was estimated to be 2.3 Gy (230 rad) by means of a blood test. 16 years after the accident, the woman suffered from premature aging.

  7. Category:Orphanages by country - Wikipedia

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    Orphanages in the United States (1 C, 41 P) This page was last edited on 20 May 2017, at 14:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  8. Orphan - Wikipedia

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    The Second World War (1939–1945), with its massive numbers of deaths and vast population movements, left large numbers of orphans in many countries—with estimates for Europe ranging from 1,000,000 to 13,000,000. Judt (2006) estimates there were 9,000 orphaned children in Czechoslovakia, 60,000 in the Netherlands 300,000 in Poland and ...

  9. Category:Orphanages by continent - Wikipedia

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    Orphanages in Europe (9 C, 17 P) O. Orphanages in Oceania (1 C, 1 P) Orphanages in North America (2 C, 1 P) This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 04 ...