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Barack Obama: “We also know kids are better off when raised by loving families, not institutions.”

On the recordApril 27, 2016
We also know kids are better off when raised by loving families, not institutions.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Proclamation 9432—National Foster Care Month

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