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...average length of stay at Mooseheart, near the city of Aurora, is six years. Run by the Loyal Order of Moose and financed mostly through charity, the institution currently houses 230 children, from infancy to age 18, in 24 houses. Mooseheart, where all placements are made on a voluntary basis, will give a child back to his or her biological parents or legal guardians on request. But Rose Haggerty, its director of student services, states firmly, "We don't try to reunite families. We don't mean to usurp biology, but we promote the idea that the child is growing...
...many -- there is absolutely no reason to believe that equal, if not worse, abuse won't occur behind the walls," says David Rothman, a professor of social medicine at Columbia. "The difference will be that nobody will hear the screams." Even at well-regarded private institutions such as Mooseheart, four house parents were arrested and convicted of sexually molesting about a dozen children between...
...largely blue-collar fraternal organization boasting some 900,000 members, the Loyal Order of Moose was founded in 1888 in Kentucky and now has its headquarters, called the Supreme Lodge of the World, at Mooseheart, Ill., 38 miles west of Chicago. The Moose pay between $15 and $25 a year for the right to congregate at local lodges and for an unusual brand of social security: their families are eligible, in case of need, for an orphanage and school complex in Mooseheart, and upon retirement they can go to a Florida rest home called Moosehaven...
...ridiculous," and membership in the Harrisburg lodge has dropped from 2,500 to about 1,200. But one member sitting at the lodge bar professed helplessness. "No one in a local can say we'll do this or that. The bylaws are controlled at the Supreme level." Indeed, Mooseheart has overseen Lodge 107's defense, and it has paid most of the substantial legal fees. The organization's whites-only policy has also involved other lodges in local lawsuits, but no change in the policy is planned...
...Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, sponsored by the Mooseheart (111.) Laboratory for Child Research of the Loyal Order of Moose and the University of Chicago...