Behind each of the million children in institutions, there is usually a story of parents who are desperate and feel they've run out of options, like Natalia in Moldova, who only had enough money to feed her baby, and so had to send her older son to the institution; or Desi, in Bulgaria, who looked after her four children at home until her husband died, but then she had to go out to work full time, and with no support, felt she had no option but to place a child with disabilities in an institution; or the countless young girls too terrified to tell their parents they're pregnant, who leave their babies in a hospital; or the new parents, the young couple who have just found out that their firstborn child has a disability, and instead of being provided with positive messages about their child's potential, are told by the doctors, "Forget her, leave her in the institution, go home and make a healthy one."
Entonces tuvo que salir a trabajar a tiempo completo, sin ningún otro respaldo. Sintió que no tenía más alternativa que dejar a su hijo discapacitado en una institución. O las incontables jovencitas que aterradas de contarle a sus padres su embarazo, dejan a sus hijos en el hospital. O los nuevos padres, parejas jóvenes que descubren que su primer hijo tiene una discapacidad, y en lugar de darles información positiva sobre el potencial de su hijo, hay doctores que les dicen: "Olvídense.