These are your loving, trusting girls in here. Your other girl who is probably doing the same thing doesn't get caught because she is too smart.... What is needed is more understanding on the part of the parents and the general public. I don't mean condoning, I mean understanding... that these girls do need help. [Director of a Crittenton Home in Florida quoted in the St. Petersburg Times, May 19. 1968]
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