Too Easy to Ignore?

We also face the issue of helping kids who are viewed by some folks as throw-away kids. Our children are very, very ill in some cases. They’ve been through horrible circumstances. They’ve been abused and neglected. They’re really the silent victims of society, and sometimes they’re not always as sympathetic as maybe [kids with] other kinds of childhood illnesses. And so we deal with that kind of an issue, so there’s a lot of educating that we have to do with the public about mental-health issues and really the deserving nature of our children. They’re really wonderful, warm children who had some really terrible experiences. But there is a stigma still in our society associated with mental-health illness.