Democracy Dies in Darkness. Our children and grandchildren should not be the place where social policy failures are deposited.
By Robert B. Miller, West Virginia Watch
West Virginia Watch is an independent, nonpartisan news service based in Charleston.
I write as one of West Virginia’s lost children: a child of poverty from North Central West Virginia who left my home among the hills to become a doctoral pediatric psychologist and graduate faculty member who supervised ten young doctors practicing in the United States and abroad.

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