Word: ladner
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...made New Jersey the first state to deny additional cash benefits to welfare mothers who give birth to another child. And while Gingrich's proposal to bring back orphanages has been denounced as a racist attack on black families, one of the first proponents of the idea was Joyce Ladner, a distinguished black sociologist...
Forer's modest proposal drew support from a few child-welfare experts like Joyce Ladner, now acting president of Howard University, and from such conservative social theorists as Charles Murray and James Q. Wilson. "Not all families are worth preserving," Wilson wrote. "And . . . foster care has its own problems. We don't know as much as we should about how well institutional care might function under contemporary conditions." (To which Murray added, "Think of it as 24-hour day care...