29 June 2020, 12:53 PM
wtgThe Romanian children
Interesting but tough read.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ma...earn-to-love/612253/
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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb
Bazootiehead-in-training
29 June 2020, 04:09 PM
AmandaTruly the stuff of nightmares, wtg. It constituted an unintended experiment in extreme human emotional deprivation during the formative years.
I seem to recall a more short-lived one in Victorian orphanages for infants, often cited in the literature. The babies were well nourished and kept clean, but otherwise ignored. Most died, reminding all contemplating them as sad proof that "man does not live by bread alone".
Infinitely tragic.