Andrea Diefenbach Depicts the Crisis of Children Heading Households in Moldova – NYTimes.com

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Children Heading Households in Moldova

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.