Copeland's Orphanage

I was amazed to read an editorial supporting Mary Jo Copeland's proposed orphanage...in the Minnesota Daily!

The author makes an interesting point - while foster care may be a great option for many kids, others, especially older children, can't get a decent foster home. Furthermore, which is better for a child's sense of long-term belonging; the all-too-common series of transient foster homes, or a well-run, close-knit small community of children in the same boat?

I don't pretend to know the answer to that not-at-all rhetorical question. But, it seems, neither does anyone else...