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The Best Thing About Orphanages

By ADF Alliance Alert

Richard B. McKenzie writes at the Wall Street Journal: "Critics of orphanages point out that children are always better off in loving and safe biological families. That's always been the case, of course, but many kids have no hope of access to such families. There are about 143 million orphaned children, and tens of millions more abandoned, in the world today. Over a half-million American kids are in foster care (which is often luxury care by the standards of orphanage care in poor countries), but still a sizable percentage of American foster-care kids will have their disadvantages compounded in one important way: They will spend their entire childhoods in the worst of all possible situations, 'permanent temporary care,' in which they will be moved from one placement to the next to the next, many losing count of their foster homes before they 'age out' of the system at 18."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 15, 2010 (boomark / email).