THE DEPRIVATION OF ATTACHMENT In this 1980s Romanian orphanage, the 250 children between ages 1 and 5 outnumbered caregivers 15 to 1. When such children were tested years later they had lower intelligence scores and double the 20 percent rate of anxiety symptoms found in children assigned to quality foster care settings (Bick et al., 2015; Kumsta et al., 2015; Nelson et al., 2009, 2014).