Poverty-Stricken Families: Nicolae Ceausescu

Nicolae Ceausescu: It made her scream, according to The Star. Mirela was one of tens of thousands of institutionalized children abandoned by poverty-stricken families under the regime of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . In an attempt to increase the population, he had outlawed birth control and required all women to have five children and When Mirela Kinney first arrived in Canada, the 3-year-old was afraid of grass touching her feet, tickling between her toes. So did dogs, anything white and fluffy or food she wasnt used to. Almost everything in Calgary, except bread and milk, was new. Before she was adopted in 1991, she had spent her young life in a Romanian orphanage. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.