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Left behind by parents who must seek work abroad, Moldovan children have to fend for themselves, as Andrea Diefenbach explains to Isabel Castro.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/children-heading-households-in-moldova/
Andrea Diefenbach was shocked by what she saw in a first-grade classroom in Cirpesti, Moldova, in 2008. When asked whose parents had emigrated to Italy, two-thirds of the students raised their hands.