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"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children."

Letty Cottin Pogrebin, American Activist

America, Children, Nation

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"America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children."

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