%0 Journal Article %T THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF ROMANIAN PARENTSĄ¯ EMIGRATION ON THEIR CHILDRENĄ¯S DESTINY %A FELICIA ANDRIONI %J Annals of the University of Petrosani : Economics %D 2011 %I University of Petrosani %X Ą°Mother has been gone for six months to work abroad for me, so that I can have a better future. I miss her every day. Sometimes I tell myself itĄ¯s just a dream and when I wake up mother will be by my side. Dream or reality? Reality or dream? (A sixteen ¨C years old adolescent). The paper shows that are general factors of emigration after post revolutionary period in Romania and also present few aspects of the migration phenomenon from this country and after that it is presenting the social and economic effects of Romanian parents emigration on their children`s destiny. %K migration phenomenon %K socio-economic effects %K emigration %K children left at home %K parents go abroad %U http://www.upet.ro/annals/economics/pdf/2011/part4/Andrioni.pdf