Shortly after the Berlin Wall came down and after the Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations, images of malnourished children in institutions in Romania were broadcast by international media. They showed inhumane conditions in which children were living in residential institutions in Romania. Those visiting the institutions were surprised that the babies were silent. The so-called Romanian orphans made headlines for many years to come and they became subjects of several international research studies. To become a member of the European Union, Romania had to reform its child protection system. This book sheds light on the lived experiences of those born around 1990. Their childhoods were subject to successive reforms and sometimes divergent external influences. Most of them became adults around 2007 when the country joined the EU. Uniquely, the book brings together the accounts of those who stayed in institutions, those who grew up in foster care and those adopted, in Romania and internationally. Their narratives challenge stereotypes about these types of care.