Twenty Years on, Romania Unwilling to Lift International Adoption Ban

What was supposed to be a two-year moratorium in 2001 has turned into an indefinite ban on the adoption of Romanian children by foreigners, denying many the chance of a better future.

Mandi Rodger, a US social worker, was volunteering with orphaned and abandoned children in Romania when she met a small child with Down syndrome who lived in a Bucharest orphanage with around 40 other children.

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