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In the article it states that Izidor was not an unwanted child, but got ill when very young, got hospitalised and the family just left him in the hospital and s
by drno123 6y ago
In the article it states that Izidor was not an unwanted child, but got ill when very young, got hospitalised and the family just left him in the hospital and stopped visiting.
- bad_user 6y ago> it states that Izidor was not an unwanted child Where does it say that? I might have missed it. Abandoning a child for having a leg deformity doesn't strike me as if he was wanted much. Anyway, the poor conditions in the orphanages and children hospitals were a result of overcrowding and this happened due to Ceaușescu's policies that turned Romania into a baby factory. And there was also the issue that children with disabilities were incompatible with communism's "new man" ideal, so the orphanages for children with disabilities were genuine horrors.
- teruakohatu 6y agoThat is what the birth parents told him, it's near the end of the article. Hard to know if they were telling the truth, but he was not abandoned at birth.
- magicalhippo 6y agoMaybe not the case here, but I heard of a similar story from another country. As a baby he got his arm badly burned and the parents left him at the hospital because they couldn't pay for treatment. The accident cost him his hand _and_ his parents.