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United Kingdom: I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals (Opinion)

August 25, 2016 by Maria

➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:

United Kingdom: I was a child in care. We needed love, not chemicals (Opinion)
The Guardian – August 23, 2016
Hearing the news that children in care and “special schools” were subjected to drug trials in the 1960s without their parents being consulted sent shivers down my spine. As a 10-year-old I was shipped off from my children’s home to a school for maladjusted children – a boarding school I knew had a lot of the bad boys from my area. I now know, 40 years later, that my problems were emotional and could have been solved with love and care. Instead, I was exposed to violence, bullying and abuse. My school was a very scary place where you had to be on guard all the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/child-care-love-chemicals-drug-trials

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