Abstract
This keynote address highlights the various forms of inadvertent neglect imposed by this nation on its children and urges Americans to unite in an effort to reclaim our children and, in that way, secure our collective future.
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Hartman National Conference on Children and Their Families, New London, CT, June 23–25, 1993.