Trauma Disrupts Children’s Brains—but Researchers Are Finding New Ways to Help Them Heal
Between 1966, when abortion was outlawed in Romania, and 1989, when the revolution overthrew the communist government, many parents turned over children they couldn’t care for to state-run institutions. Children grew up in neglect, without the security of a dependable, comforting caregiver. Babies were left alone in cribs, rarely held. No one answered their cries,…