We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at hom…

Marian Wright Edelman
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. ✨ Society's Pushed-Out Children by Margie Casady, Psychology Today, June 1975.
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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him. ✨ Society's Pushed-Out Children by Margie Casady, Psychology Today, June 1975.

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