Video Of Rachel Maddow's "Tender Age Shelters" Report Will Make You Tear Up Too
The article also explained that the U.S. government seemingly has no protocol for operating shelters with large numbers of young children, as the country's child welfare system decided many years ago that orphanages could have long-term detrimental effects on kids. As Michelle Brane, the director of migrant rights at the Women’s Refugee Commission, told the Associated Press, “There is no model for how you house tons of little children in cots institutionally in our country. We don’t do orphanages, our child welfare has recognized that is an inappropriate setting for little children.”