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Suffer little children : an autobiography of a foster child

Suffer little children : an autobiography of a foster child

Book 1991

"Determined to purge himself for his unhappy childhood memories as a ward of the department of Child Welfare, and hoping to help prevent similar abuse of today's children, O'Brien began to write his story. Told in his simple and compelling words, Suffer Little Children poses the haunting question, why? It does not attempt to explain the stunning beaurocratic difference that allowed children to suffer. Nor does it offer any neat sociological reaso...