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Article: `THE MOYNIHAN REPORT' RISES LIKE THE PHOENIX.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1995
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Byline: Suzanne Fields
WASHINGTON, D.C. When Newt Gingrich talked about the failure of welfare and cited the movie of ``Boys Town,'' as evidence of welfare that works, he was criticized for wanting to bring back the Dickensian world of ``Oliver Twist.''
But in the past few weeks the word ``orphanage'' translated into ``group homes'' to fit the current fashion has shocked us into a necessary discussion of services for children who have no one to take care of them.
Children born to crack mothers, who don't know their children's fathers, whose babies are malnourished and often abused in their own or foster homes, would do better in ...