PEDIATRICS Vol. 42 No. 2 August 1968, pp. 380-381
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The Disadvantaged Child: Studies on the Social Environment and the Learning Process, by Martin Deutsch and Associates. New York: Basic Books, 1967, 400 pp., $10.00

Robert Coles M.D.1

1 Cambridge, Massachusetts

I must admit that I have never liked the term "disadvantaged child." One is somehow made to think of those earnest or smiling men and women from our exalted suburbs who organize a car pool once a week in order to go "help" the poor, benighted "slum children"–by taking them to a museum and buying them some cookies. I don't deny what cookies and Rembrandt can mean to a child, any child, nor do I wish to criticize unfairly the desperate efforts on the part of thousands of middle-class people to share what they have with others.