Word: treatmen
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Hollygrove is not an orphanage. It is something called a residential- treatmen t center, a phenomenon very much of the current century. The last ! time orphanages were seen as a cutting-edge reform was in the 1820s: they removed destitute children from almshouses, into which they had been packed with adult paupers of all descriptions. But when researchers publicized the stunting effects of institutional life, group care gave way to welfare programs that allowed children who were simply poor to remain with their mothers. Children who were "parentless" owing to abuse or neglect or death were remanded into...
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