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At present, Romania has one of the best legislative systems regarding child protection in Europe; however, Romania has the largest number of children in the special protection system and, moreover, in residential type services. What is the source of these contradictory aspects? To understand the situation in the Romanian system, we believe it is necessary to make a short bird's eye historical view. Consequently, in the paper below we review the main events that influenced this system covering the interval 1966-2014. To facilitate this overview, we divide this period into five stages (Greenwell 2001, 2003; Gaetan, 2005): the massive institutionalisation stage (1966- 1989); the quick, contradictory, uncoordinated stage (1990-1996); the decentralisation stage (1997-2000); the institutional reorganisation and balance stage (2001-2004) and the legislative harmonisation stage (2004-until now). For a holistic, documented presentation, we analyse briefly these important stages of child protection in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present, Romania has one of the best legislative systems regarding child protection in Europe; however, Romania has the largest number of children in the special protection system and, moreover, in residential type services. What is the source of these contradictory aspects? To understand the situation in the Romanian system, we believe it is necessary to make a short bird's eye historical view. Consequently, in the paper below we review the main events that influenced this system covering the interval 1966-2014. To facilitate this overview, we divide this period into five stages (Greenwell 2001, 2003; Gaetan, 2005): the massive institutionalisation stage (1966-1989); the quick, contradictory, uncoordinated stage (1990-1996); the decentralisation stage (1997-2000); the institutional reorganisation and balance stage (2001-2004) and the legislative harmonisation stage (2004-until now). For a holistic, documented presentation, we analyse briefly these important stages of child protection in Romania. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]