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HERE has been heated conflict between exponents of institutional care and T exponents of its young, maturing rival-foster home care. Some have even conceived of all institutional care as being inherently sadistic. They find it difficult to fancy an institution that is not regimented, ritualized and depriving. In contrast, there are others who are inclined to be doubtful of the completely virtuous character of foster homes. One speaker with the latter attitude remarked "I knew, too, that the supposed love of the foster mother for the foster child, is frequently fiction" (3). Experience has taught most child care workers, however, that both kinds of tutelage are needed depending on the individual child and his family situation. It is their feeling that both forms can and should be oriented to the needs of individual children in accord with the best principles of child development. We

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