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In some foreign orphanages, babies lie in rows in white cribs with white sheets in stark, white rooms. No one talks to these babies. No one holds them to feed them. When they cry, no one comes. When they learn to crawl, they are confined to the crib. They hear no language, nothing but the cries of other babies, who like them, are more alone than any of us have ever been. In these state-run orphanages, a single caregiver is in charge of as many as 20 infants. It's no surprise that when these children are adopted by loving, affluent American families, they have difficulty forming an attachme...

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