"Industry best-practices related to orphan care overwhelmingly focus on keeping orphaned and abandoned children in their home communities. Taking orphaned or abandoned children and putting them into an institutional setting, apart from the rest of their community, and usually with no clear primary care-provider is a bad idea any way you want to look at it."

— Tales from the Hood reiterating my comments about orphanages and why you should avoid volunteering for one

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