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Were Not Better Than This. But We Can Try to Be.

Published: June 21, 2018, 11:34 a.m.

A doctor on the television is saying that locking children up in cages away from their parents could be considered child abuse. It is strange to hear this being spelled out\u2014it\u2019s like a herpetologist popping up in your kitchen to shout that rattlesnakes aren\u2019t toys. You never thought they were, but the obvious is being asserted with desperation, afraid that it won\u2019t be believed. It is bad to rip children from their mothers and fathers, the doctor says. Really.