Oklahoma children's shelters worry national child welfare experts

 
BY RANDY ELLIS, NOLAN CLAY AND ROBBY TRAMMELL
Published: February 12, 2012

Several national child welfare experts are critical of Oklahoma 's use of shelters to house abused and neglected babies and other children.

“That's a really serious problem,” says Carole Shauffer , senior director of strategic initiatives for the Youth Law Center in San Francisco .

She said there has been a significant amount of child development research that shows every month that babies and toddle...


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