Romania had created this rapidly growing population of abandoned, sick, and
disabled children through some twenty-five years of terrorizing social and economic
policies. Romania completed a harsh collectivization and nationalization process in 1965
putting all property and the means of production under state control. Two years later,
communist party dictator Nicolae Ceausescu announced an ambitious plan for rapid
industrial growth which required more workers. He brought peasants to the city and he
outlawed contraception, abortion, and discouraged divorce in order to fulfill his
grandiose plans of doubling the population and increasing production.