"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."

Marian Wright Edelman, American Activist

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"We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him."

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