Nicolae Ștefănuță· Verts/ALE

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But 10,000 of those children grew up and today are adults.

Omissions

• The claim does not specify which specific cohort of children this refers to (from a specific institution, a specific study, or the general population of institutionalized children)
• No timeframe is given for when these children became adults (age of majority in Romania is 18)
• The survival/mortality rate of children in 1990s Romanian institutions is not provided as context

Sources

• SecondaryThe Atlantic - Facebook post on Romania's child gulagsEstimated 170,000 abandoned infants, children, and teens in Romania's institutions in 1990
• TertiaryWikipedia - 1980s–1990s Romanian orphans phenomenonEstimates of 100,000-170,000 children in Romanian state institutions during the 1990s