PEDIATRICS Vol. 98 No. 2 August 1996, pp. 288-289
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Children in Orphanages: Newt Gingrich Is Not Daddy Warbucks

Carol D. Berkowitz MD1

1 UCLA School of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90509

If we were living in the best of all possible worlds, every child would be born into a loving family, with two parents who were able to care for the material as well as the emotional needs of the child. But such is not the case, and currently half a million children and youth are in out-of-home placement funded by the government (Newsweek. December 12, 1994:28). We as a collective society must determine what is best for those children who have not been given the best by the circumstances of their birth. Who then is most able to determine what is best for any given child, and how does society's needs (especially economic ones) enter into the decision making?1

Submitted on May 2, 1996
Accepted on May 2, 1996