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Orphanages improve image in child care

Children raised in two African orphanages show good emotional adjustment, challenging traditional developmental theories.

 

References:

Wolff, P.H., and G. Fesseha. 1998. The orphans of Eritrea: Are orphanages part of the problem or part of the solution? American Journal of Psychiatry 155(October):1319.

 

Sources:

Peter H. Wolff
Children’s Hospital
300 Longwood Avenue
Carnegie 2
Boston, MA 02115

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 15, October 10, 1998, p. 230.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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