title: Against all the odds.
abstract: A four-year-old child was admitted to a hospital in Bucharest; her father had stabbed her six times with a carving knife. Her tongue was cut out and she had cigarette burns all over her body. Only 24 hours earlier, this child was one of the thousands of children in Romania's orphanages, which, contrary to their title, do not only house orphans but, for the most part, children whose parents cannot afford to feed and keep them.