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JEAN JACOBS, HOUSEWIFE, SAN FRANCISCO.
As a woman who spent six years of her childhood in an orphanage, Mrs. Jacobs, 56, has an understandably special concern for institutionalized children. She and her husband Tevis, a successful and prominent corporation lawyer, have four children, one adopted, one a foster child. It was only natural that Mrs...
She now calls such activities "all the nice things that people like me do," because she finally discovered that her work was more than a genteel social obligation. One night six years ago she received a call from a friend, whose secretary at that moment was in a state of...
The incident goaded Mrs. Jacobs into organizing a campaign to overhaul the city's entire system of dealing with unwanted or delinquent children. She ran headlong into an ineluctable bureaucracy and conditions grimly reminiscent of Oliver Twist. The chief probation officer told her: "If anybody cared about these kids...
That is not precisely true. Mrs. Jacobs found out about a girl whose tuberculosis had gone undiscovered in the hall for six months, and another whose broken arm had been improperly set. She found that it was a regular practice to lock children in cold, isolated cells for up to...