Working as a Pre-school Psychologist in an economically drepressed area of the south I have to say that many of our children live like they are in a 3rd world nation. How many of you have visited with kids here in US in homes or the foster system...I thought so. I have seen malnurishment, neglect from skin diseases that could have been simply treated, serious medical conditions ignored (sickle cell, strokes, seizures), I work with kids who are resistant to someone holding them because they have rarely or never been held by a loved one. I understand the children of the world need but I also understand that the children of America need as many of those same tradgies that happen in orphanges aboard happen right here. Also as a side note I have worked with parents who got a child from another country who got more than they bargined for social/emotionally and wanted to "return" the child.
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