title: Some considerations concerning institutional placement of retarded children.
abstract: The question whether retarded children should be institutionalized is discussed in the light of how, on the one hand, children can be successfully cared for at home and, more extensively, the serious problems that often arise at home. Institutions are not seen as the dreaded places they are often believed to be, and the frequent advantages to the retarded children of institutional care are discussed.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002654:Child Care; D002674:Child, Institutionalized; D003376:Counseling; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents