Fostering study
Tonight the problems of foster children will be examined by “Perspective” on South Pacific Television. Bill Saunders will trace the story of David John, who was four when he arrived at the home of the family that eventually adopted him. He was so scarred by rejection that he would enter a room backwards with his eyes closed. Soon
after birth he had been put into the care of the State, and by the time he was four, he had had 13 different “homes.” The result was a profoundly disturbed child unable to relate to others. His adoptive parents, the social worker, teacher, and hospital staff who have tried to help David John say his problems could have been prevented.
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Press, 19 August 1977, Page 11
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